The Body Alone (University of Iowa Press) is all encompassing. Nina Lohman’s memoir describes itself as, “…a lyrical nonfiction inquiry into the experience, meaning, and articulation of pain.” This articulation comes at the reader from all angles. Yes, there are first-person accounts from Lohman that one would expect from something like a traditional memoir. But […]
The Body Alone
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For her debut book, Iowa City’s Nina Lohman spent eight years trying to articulate and exorcise chronic pain: ‘We have to tell the truth about our bodies’
How much pain can you handle? This is a question that Nina Lohman asks readers of The Body Alone, her upcoming book set to release July 3 with The University of Iowa Press. The question above comes up repeatedly in Lohman’s book. Sometimes a whole page will be blank save that one simple, barbarous inquiry, […]
