If the Body Allows It: Stories

If the Body Allows It: Stories - Paperback

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If the Body Allows It: Stories - Paperback

If the Body Allows It: Stories - Paperback

by Megan Cummins
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by Megan Cummins (Author)

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.

Author Biography

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.

Number of Pages: 270
Dimensions: 0.61 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: September 01, 2020
ISBN9781496222831
Author Megan Cummins
PublisherUniversity of Nebraska Press
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2020
LanguageENG- English
Pages270
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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