Body Friend

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE STELLA PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND FICTION BOOK AWARD 'an illuminating reflection on what it means to live with pain.' -Publishers Weekly 'Body Friend is a deeply intimate tribute to the fragile and porous self, written in prose of rare clarity and tenderness. I felt everything reading this book.'-Claire Thomas, author of The Performance and Fugitive Blue 'Body Friend is a novel that clings to the mind long after it finishes.' -ArtsHUB 'a tender and raw novel about friendship, chronic pain and the healing power of water.' - Harper's Bazaar 'Katherine Brabon distinguished herself with her first novels, The Memory Artist and The Shut Ins, but she has surpassed these and reached an early career pinnacle with her enigmatically titled novel, Body Friend.'-Books + Publishing Late in the summer five years ago, when I was recovering from a surgical procedure, I met two women within a few weeks of each other and I saw both of them regularly, always separately, for some ...