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If the Body Allows It: Stories

If the Body Allows It: Stories - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Megan CumminsSeries:The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in FictionPublish date:2020-09-01Pages:270
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9781496222831ISBN-10:1496222830UPC:9781496222831Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), LiterarySize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.7606Product ID:SCAHEDMCS6
Longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection

Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, If the Body Allows It is divided into six parts and framed by the story of Marie, a woman in her thirties living in Newark, New Jersey. Suffering from a chronic autoimmune illness, she also struggles with guilt over the overdose and death of her father, whom she feels she betrayed at the end of his life. The stories within the frame--about failed marriages, places of isolation and protection, teenage mistakes, and forging a life in the aftermath--are the stories the narrator writes after she meets and falls in love with a man whose grief mirrors her own. If the Body Allows It explores illness and its aftermath, guilt and addiction, and the relationships the characters form after they've lost everyone else, including themselves.

Introspective, devastating, and funny, If the Body Allows It grapples with the idea that life is always on the brink of never being the same again.

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9781496222831ISBN-10:1496222830UPC:9781496222831Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), LiterarySize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.7606Product ID:SCAHEDMCS6
Megan Cummins is the managing editor at A Public Space and A Public Space Books. Her work has been published in Ninth Letter, One Teen Story, Guernica, and Electric Literature.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

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