A tale of a college student beset with afflictions, by an author whose βbooks are shot through with light and dark, with strangeness and humorβ (Kelly Link).
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Meet Elodie Harrington, college student and medical anomaly. From chicken pox to tuberculosis, Elodie suffers such a frequent barrage of illnesses that she moves into the Brown University infirmary. When charismatic Chess Hunter enters the infirmary with two smashed knees, he and Elodie begin an intense affairβbut Chess is only a visitor to Elodieβs perpetual state of medical siege.
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As he heals, he moves back to his former life. But Elodie heads in the other direction and begins to experience strange visions. When Professor Mark Kirschling, MD, gets wind of Elodie, heβs convinced he can make his professional mark by cracking her case. But heβs entirely unprepared for what heβs about to encounter.
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By the author of Like the Red Panda, To Feel Stuff is a novel that is βa satire, ghost story, college romance, and medical dramaΒ .Β .Β . Seigelβs confidenceβher intelligence and nerveβlets her take risks that sweep the reader alongβ (Bret Easton Ellis, bestselling author of Less than Zero and American Psycho).