Beautiful Flesh

Selected from the country’s leading literary journals and publications— Colorado Review ,  Creative Nonfiction ,  Georgia Review ,  Prairie Schooner ,  Crazyhorse ,  The Normal School , and others— Beautiful Flesh  gathers eighteen essays on the body, essentially building a multi-gender, multi-ethnic body out of essays, each concerning a different part of the body: belly, brain, bones, blood, ears, eyes, hair, hands, heart, lungs, nose, ovaries, pancreas, sinuses, s