The Body in Question - Jill Ciment
Category: Novel
Tags: Novel, General Fiction, Adults, Contemporary
New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year 2019, From the author of Heroic Measures (Smart and funny and completely surprisingI loved every page, Ann Patchett), Act of God (A feat of literary magic, Booklist) and, with Amy Hempel, The Hand That Feeds You (An unnerving, elegant page-turner, Vanity Fair), a spare, masterful novel., The place: central Florida. The situation: a sensational murder trial, set in a courthouse more Soviet than Le Corbusier; a rich, white teenage girl - a twin - on trial for murdering her toddler brother., Two of the jurors: Hannah, a married 52-year-old former Rolling Stone and Interview Magazine photographer of rock stars and socialites (she began to photograph animals when she realized she saw people as a species), and Graham, a 41-year-old anatomy professor. Both are sequestered (she, juror C-2; he, F-17) along with the other jurors at the Econo Lodge off I-75. As the shocking and numbing details of the crime are revealed during a string of days and court
