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People Collide
People Collide: A Novel | Isle McElroy
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From the acclaimed author of The Atmospheriansa Fight Club for the Millennial Generation (Mat Johnson)a gender-bending, body-switching novel that explores marriage, identity, and sex, and raises profound questions about the nature of true partnership. When Eli wakes up alone in the cramped Bulgarian apartment he shares with Elizabeth, his more organized and successful wife, he discovers that, somehow, hes in her body. His male body has vanished, and the personality that once resided in Elizabeths is gone without a trace. What follows is a search across Europe to America for his missing wifeand a roving, no-holds-barred exploration of gender and embodied experience. As Eli comes closer to finding Elizabethwhile learning to exist in her bodyhe begins to wonder what effect this metamorphosis will have on their relationship and how long he can maintain the illusion of living as someone he isn't. Will their new marriage wither completely in each other's bodies? Or is this transformation the very thing Eli and Elizabeth need for their marriage to thrive? A rich, rewarding exploration of ambition and sacrifice, desire and loss, People Collide is a tender portrait of shared lives that shines a refreshing light on everything we thought we knew about love, sexuality, and the truth of who we are.
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A married couple wakes up one day inhabiting each others bodies. One of them is gone, so the other one narrates the story. And it‘s quite a story, mainly about how it feels to be in the body of the opposite sex. Can they find each other again? And how do their parents feel? Interesting questions with even more interesting answers.

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Great April! Fav reads were the tagged book (husband wife body swap), The Faniky Chao, The Glow, Lone Women, and Everyone in my family has killed someone‘s

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