{"product_id":"book-cyel","title":"The Body in Question","description":"\u003cb\u003e*** \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR ***\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eHeroic Measures \u003c\/i\u003e(“Smart and funny and completely surprising … I loved every page” —Ann Patchett), \u003ci\u003eAct of God\u003c\/i\u003e (“A feat of literary magic”—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e) and, with Amy Hempel, \u003ci\u003eThe Hand That Feeds You \u003c\/i\u003e(“An unnerving, elegant page-turner” —\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e), a spare, masterful novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Two of the jurors: Hannah, a married fifty-two-year-old former \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eInterview Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e photographer of rock stars and socialites (she began to photograph animals when she realized she saw people “as a species”), and Graham, a forty-one-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 courtroom hours, and the nights play out in a series of court-financed meals at Outback Steak House (the state isn’t paying for their drinks) and Red Lobster, Hannah and Graham fall into a furtive affair, keeping their oath as jurors never to discuss the trial. During deliberations the lovers learn that they are on opposing sides of the case. Suddenly they look at one another through an altogether different lens, as things become more complicated … \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter the verdict, Hannah returns home to her much older husband, but the case ignites once again and Hannah’s “one last dalliance before she is too old” takes on profoundly personal and moral consequences as \u003ci\u003eThe Body in Question\u003c\/i\u003e moves to its affecting, powerful, and surprising conclusion.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49329432396080,"sku":"BDcyel","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/cyel-Square-cover.jpg?v=1779304049","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-cyel","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}