The Body Farm - Stories

The long-awaited new book from the critically acclaimed author of The body cannot tell any lies. From birth to death, and through all the transitions in between, the body stores our knowledge and history, our feelings and experiences. Our betrayals. These insightful and empathetic stories, from the critically acclaimed author of An;entomologist solves cold cases and upholds a sense of justice by studying the decay of corpses in a field and the insect life they develop. A caregiver obsesses over a stained-glass lampshade to deal with the elegiac losses of Alzheimer’s. A sister with webbed fingers highlights the often-universal belief that our siblings just might be creatures brought forth from the deep. The memory of a scent evokes the haunting legacy of the COVID-19 pandemic. These eleven stories display Abby Geni’s great capacity to take us into the lives and experiences of others to scrutinize the physical self: birth, childhood, transition, mental health, trauma, aging, illness, love, sex, and death.

Product details

• Authors: Abby Geni, Geni Abby
• Publisher: Counterpoint
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.05.2025
• EAN: 9781640096981
• ISBN: 978-1-64009-698-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 209 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Women, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Short Stories, FICTION / Nature & the Environment