If the Body Allows It - Stories

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.
 

List of contents

I
Heart
The Beast
Countergirls
 
II
Eyes
Future Breakfasts
We Are Holding Our Own
 
III
Lungs
That Was Me Once
Flour Baby
 
IV
Blood
Water Burial
Aerosol
 
V
Skin
Tough Beauty
Higher Power
 
VI.
Skeleton
 
Acknowledgments

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Megan Cummins
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781496222831
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-2283-1
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in; Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction; The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schoo; The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature