Catherine Lacey is a Guggenheim fellow, a Whiting Award winner, and the author of four works of fiction: Nobody Is Ever Missing, The Answers, Certain American States, and Pew.
“Joy Sorman’s Life Sciences takes an overtly political premise—the medical establishment’s inability or perhaps refusal to take seriously the physical struggles of women—and transforms it into a surreal and knife-deep work of fiction that asks: What pain can we abide, and what pain must we fight back against, even if the fight hurts more than the disease itself?”
—Lena Dunham, The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632062956 Publication date: Oct 12, 2021
By Joy Sorman
Translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud
Introduction by Catherine Lacey
“Joy Sorman’s Life Sciences takes an overtly political premise—the medical establishment’s inability or perhaps refusal to take seriously the physical struggles of women—and transforms it into a surreal and knife-deep work of fiction that asks: What pain can we abide, and what pain must we fight back against, even if the fight hurts more than the disease itself?”
—Lena Dunham, The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632062956
Publication date: Oct 12, 2021