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An emotionally wrenching work of fiction about a health-care worker who tenders compassion and love to victims of AIDS, by an author who "strips her language of convention to lay bare the ferocious rituals of love and need."—New York Times Book Review
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Paul Truman
reviewed Gifts of the Body on October 22, 2018
Gifts of the Body
Wow... a very fast, gripping, and moving read.
This would definitely go on my "Death and Disease" book shelf alongside "Magic Mountain" and "Adentro una hiena." The rawness of the writing reminded me of "Lo que no tiene nombre."
The prose is VERY Raymond Carver-esque and I loved it. I liked how we learn NOTHING directly about what is motivating the narrator to do this kind of work (and then, it is implied, to quit doing it).
Also, unlike "Olive Kitteridge," I had no problem here keeping track of character "crossover" appearances" in the different linked stories. (It helps that this book is only 140 pages long!)
I def recommend, but it's fuerte.... although on some level, with all the craziness happening in the world right now, I kind of appreciated reading a book that was about being compassionate to strangers in need, ya know?
I'm not sure if I would go back to this, but I am curious about seeking out other works by this same author now.
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