If the Body Allows It by Megan Cummins  Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, If the Body Allows It is divided into six parts and framed by the story of Marie, a woman in her thirties living in Newark, New Jersey. Suffering from a chronic autoimmune illness, she also struggles with guilt over the overdose and death of her father...Introspective, devastating, and funny, If the Body Allows It grapples with the idea that life is always on the brink of never being the same again. Schooner, Allowance, Literary Fiction, Over Dose, Cummins, Betrayal, Goodreads