To Feel Stuff

Meet Elodie Harrington, college student and medical anomaly. From chicken pox to tuberculosis, Elodie suffers such a frequent barrage of illnesses that she moves into the Brown University infirmary. When charismatic Chess Hunter enters the infirmary with two smashed knees, he and Elodie begin an intense affair, but Chess is only a visitor to Elodie's perpetual state of medical siege. As he heals, he moves back to his former life. Elodie heads in the other direction and begins to see a ghost. When Professor Mark Kirschling, M.D., gets wind of Elodie, he's convinced he can make his professional mark by cracking her case but he's entirely unprepared for what he's about to encounter.

Andrea Seigel has found a wry, ingenious way to explore the contrast between the first frisson of mortality and a life lived in defiance of it.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Published: 08/01/2006
ISBN: 9780156031509
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 7.74h x 6.58w x 0.85d

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/01/2006 pg. 66
Publishers Weekly 04/03/2006 pg. 34
Booklist 05/01/2006 pg. 73
Library Journal 05/15/2006 pg. 91
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2006 pg. 542
Entertainment Weekly 07/28/2006 pg. 71