{"product_id":"body-friend-katherine-brabon-2023","title":"Body friend. Katherine Brabon. 2023.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLate in the summer five vears ago, when I was recovering from a surgical procedure, I met two women within a few weeks of each other and I saw both of them regularly, always separately, for some months afterwards.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSummer did not give way easily that year, and even so we must force our bodies down to sleep in the heat, and even it experience does not give itself up easily to representation, 1 will lay it down anyway, frame the raw and exigent weeks, the untrustworthy months after the hospital, render it and them, Frida and Sylvla, as closely as possible to reallty or whatever is the feeling of a life and mind lived inside a body.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA woman leaves the hospital after an operation and starts swimming in a pool in Melbourne's inner suburbs. There she meets Frida, who is uncannily like her in her experience of illness. Soon after, she meets another woman in a local park, Sylvia, who sees her pain and encourages her to rest.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe two new friends seem to be polar opposites: Frida adores the pool and the natural world, Sylvia clings to the protection of interior worlds.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat begins as two seemingly simple friendships is challenged by what each woman asks of her, of themselves, and their bodies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Browse Books","offers":[{"title":"Large paperback \/ 9781761151781","offer_id":42388797358162,"sku":"BrabonK23","price":8.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2696\/2492\/files\/52EC9C7F-F034-4456-9597-30E74A24372C.jpg?v=1777877320","url":"https:\/\/browsebooks.com.au\/products\/body-friend-katherine-brabon-2023","provider":"Browse Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}