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Till death do us part: the literary bait-and-switch of Jill Ciment’s The Body in Question

April 25, 2020June 14, 2022
by Steven Beattie

Jill Ciment‘s novel begins as a courtroom thriller, but transforms into a fraught examination of desire and culpability.

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