{"product_id":"9781452324265","title":"Unwelcome Bodies","description":"“Pelland handles difficult topics with assured storytelling chops, bringing us to the brink of tears, fear, desire, and beyond. Worth your time AND money AND sincere attention.” —Steven Gould, author of Jumper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUNWELCOME BODIES\u003cbr\u003ePain. Pleasure. The sensation of touch.we feel everything through our skin, that delicate membrane separating \"I\" from \"other,\" protecting the very essence of self. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUntil it breaks. Or changes. Or burns. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat would you do if you were the one called on to save humanity, and the price you had to pay was becoming something other than human? Or if healing your body meant losing the only person you've ever loved? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWander through worlds where a woman craves even a poisonous touch, a man's deformities become a society's fashion, genetic regeneration keeps the fires of Hell away, and painted lovers risk everything to break the boundaries of their caste system down. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeparate your mind from your flesh and come in. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWelcome.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Her already-glowing reputation may still be just a hint of promising light on the horizon of those who like their fantastic fiction smart, imaginative, and driven by the mysteries of the human spirit, but each new story as brilliant as ‘Brushstrokes’ and ‘The Last Stand of the Elephant Man’ brings her inevitable future even closer. Trust me on this: Jennifer Pelland’s star has only just begun to rise.”\u003cbr\u003e—Adam-Troy Castro, author of Emissaries From the Dead","brand":"Apex Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47155169198320,"sku":"9781452324265","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781452324265_p0.jpg?v=1763846739","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781452324265","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}