The Leg in Question - Paperback

by K. W. Oxnard (Author)

What if the body, your own body, or someone else's, became the most unreliable narrator you've ever met?

From post-World War I New York to pandemic-era Savannah, from the quiet kitchens of Maine to the heat-soaked streets of Malaysia, THE LEG IN QUESTION unravels the strange, haunting, and often darkly funny ways our flesh betrays us. A young woman insists her healthy leg must be removed. A physician faces ghosts of the living and the dead. A mountain cabin turns feral. A debutante circuit shields a gay man on the cusp of a terrifying new epidemic. Across fifteen stories, doctors and patients collide in moments where the body's mysteries, its failures, obsessions, hungers, and grief, expose the fragile seams between sanity and longing. These are tales of medicine and mortality, yes, but also of the tender, reckless, astonishing human spirit trying to make sense of it all.