02986cam a2200601 4500 529377380 TxAuBib 20211108120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781496223050 1496223055 B086RC1RPH Amazon cce8ea06-70ad-477f-a346-e3a9fc68ef23 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5615328 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Cummins, Megan. If the Body Allows It [Libby eBook] : Stories. Nebraska, 2020. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 883kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Prairie Schooner Prize. American Literature. autoimmune disease. literary fiction. failed marriage. Substance Abuse. chronic illness. Teenage Mistake. Short Stories. prize winning. drug dealer. New Jersey. literature. Addiction. Isolation. Overdose. Fiction. Relapse. opioids. Newark. grief. guilt. love. HTML:Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, <i>If the Body Allows It</i> 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. <i>If the Body Allows It</i> explores illness and its aftermath, guilt and addiction, and the relationships the characters form after they've lost everyone else, including themselves.<br /> Introspective, devastating, and funny, <i>If the Body Allows It</i> grapples with the idea that life is always on the brink of never being the same again.<br />. Short Stories. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=cce8ea06-70ad-477f-a346-e3a9fc68ef23&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=cce8ea06-70ad-477f-a346-e3a9fc68ef23&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=cce8ea06-70ad-477f-a346-e3a9fc68ef23&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)