The Body in Question

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A 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. At the court appointed cut-rate motel off the interstate, they fall into an intense, furtive affair, but it is only during deliberations that the lovers learn they are on opposing sides of the case. Suddenly they look at one another through an altogether different lens. After the trial, the photographer returns to her much older husband amidst an ongoing media frenzy over the case. But the judge has received an anonymous letter about the affair, and she is preparing to release the jurors names. From that point on, the photographer’s “one last dalliance before she is too old” takes on profoundly personal and moral consequences, as The Body in Question moves to its affecting, powerful, and surprising conclusion.

Author: Jill Ciment
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 05/19/2020
Series: Vintage Contemporaries
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780525565376
Language: English