Body Friend
Body Friend
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After surgery, a woman begins swimming at a pool in inner Melbourne and meets Frida, whose experience of illness seems uncannily close to her own. Soon afterwards she meets Sylvia in a park, a woman who understands her pain but encourages a very different relationship with rest and recovery. The two friendships unfold separately and place competing demands on the narrator's sense of herself. Katherine Brabon's quiet literary novel explores chronic pain, intimacy, friendship and the complicated relationship between the mind and the body that carries it.
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Author: Katherine Brabon
Format: Paperback