Bibliograph

If the body allows it, stories, Megan Cummins

Type

Label

If the body allows it, stories, Megan Cummins

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

If the body allows it

Oclc number

1145908011

Responsibility statement

Megan Cummins

Series statement

Prairie schooner book prize in fiction

Sub title

stories

Summary

"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."--Provided by publisher

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