The Body in Question: A Novel

The Body in Question: A Novel

***Â NEW YORK TIMESÂ 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR ***

From the author of Heroic Measures (â€œSmart and funny and completely surprising . . . I loved every pageâ€ â€”Ann Patchett), Act of God (â€œA feat of literary magicâ€â€”Booklist) and, with Amy Hempel, The Hand That Feeds You (â€œAn unnerving, elegant page-turnerâ€ â€”Vanity Fair), a spare, masterful novel.

The place: central Florida. The situation: a sensational murder trial, set in a courthouse more Soviet than Le Corbusier; a rich, white teenage girlâ€”a twinâ€”on trial for murdering her toddler brother.

Two of the jurors: Hannah, a married fifty-two-year-old former Rolling Stone and Interview Magazine photographer of rock stars and socialites (she began to photograph animals when she realized she saw people â€œas a speciesâ€), and Graham, a forty-one-year-old anatomy professor. Both are sequestered (she, juror C-2; he, F-17) along with the other jurors at the Econo Lodge off I-75. As the shocking and numbing details of the crime are revealed during a string of days and courtroom hours, and the nights play out in a series of court-financed meals at Outback Steak House (the state isnâ€™t paying for their drinks) and Red Lobster, Hannah and Graham fall into a furtive affair, keeping their oath as jurors never to discuss the trial. During deliberations the lovers learn that they are on opposing sides of the case. Suddenly they look at one another through an altogether different lens, as things become more complicated . . .

After the verdict, Hannah returns home to her much older husband, but the case ignites once again and Hannahâ€™s â€œone last dalliance before she is too oldâ€ takes on profoundly personal and moral consequences as The Body in Question moves to its affecting, powerful, and surprising conclusion.
Country USA
Brand Pantheon
Manufacturer Pantheon
Binding Hardcover
Color Cream
ReleaseDate 2019-06-11
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9781524747985

Country	USA
Brand	Pantheon
Manufacturer	Pantheon
Binding	Hardcover
Color	Cream
ReleaseDate	2019-06-11
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9781524747985

The Body in Question: A Novel

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