{"product_id":"please-dont-touch-the-body-stories-9781639736256","title":"Please Don't Touch the Body: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A magnificent debut\" (Laila Lalami) that explores loneliness and community, religion and repression, and the pleasure and pain of womanhood.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy turns tender and irreverent, the 11 genre-bending stories in \u003ci\u003ePlease Don't Touch the Body\u003c\/i\u003e are thrillingly concerned with the devastation-and power-of being alive today. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the collection's first story, a Japanese woman finds healing in a secret life as a sex advice columnist after being fetishized by her white husband for decades. In the fourth story, Ronald Reagan is reincarnated as a puppy and must cope with being squeezed, dropped, and controlled by his young, queer owner. And in \"Thank You No Thank You,\" a young woman grapples with the rules she learned in her religious childhood, the freedoms of her new and more liberal life, and her actual desires as she vacations with her long-term boyfriend. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTogether these inventive, emotionally rich stories reveal an incredible new vision and \"a writer to watch\" (Rita Chang-Eppig).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781639736256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.51w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2026 pg. 117\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Emily Doyle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52537460850869,"sku":"9781639736256","price":22.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_e43c888e-e9ca-49e2-9330-77282f483fa7.jpg?v=1779169655","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/please-dont-touch-the-body-stories-9781639736256","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}