{"title":"Jill Ciment","description":"JILL CIMENT was born in Montreal, Canada. She has received many grants and awards, among them a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, two New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, and a Guggenheim fellowship. A professor at the University of Florida, she lives in Gainesville, Florida, and Brooklyn, New York.","products":[{"product_id":"the-body-in-question-paperback","title":"The Body in Question - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*** \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR ***\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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. 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