The Body in Question
The Body in Question
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The Body in Question

Written by Jill Ciment
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NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR A 52 year-old photographer and a 41 year-old anatomy professor are jurors sequestered during a sensational three-week trial: a toddler murdered by one of his twin sisters. At the court appointed cut-rate motel off the interstate, they fall into an intense, furtive affair, but it is only during deliberations that the lovers learn they are on opposing sides of the case. Suddenly they look at one another through an altogether different lens. After the trial, the photographer returns to her much older husband amidst an ongoing media frenzy over the case. But the judge has received an anonymous letter about the affair, and she is preparing to release the jurors names. From that point on, the photographer’s “one last dalliance before she is too old” takes on profoundly personal and moral consequences, as The Body in Question moves to its affecting, powerful, and surprising conclusion.

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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9780525565376
    Publication Date
    May 19, 2020
    Publisher
    Vintage
    Original Publication Date
    June 11, 2019
    Page Count
    192
    Audience
    Adult
    Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
    2018037798

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