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Thursday, June 13, 2024
Book Review: The Body Harvest
The Body Harvest by Michael J. Seidlinger Genre: Horror ISBN: 9781955904872 Print Length: 204 pages Publisher: Clash Books Reviewed by Andrea Marks-Joseph Part body horror, part exploration of the destruction that grie…
Part body horror, part exploration of the destruction that grief can cause on our sense of wellness, The Body Harvest is disturbing, disgusting, and at times deliciously delusional.
The novel follows Olivia and Will, who bonded over feeling sickened with grief in a digital support group. They now live together in an apartment they can't afford. The not-quite-couple spends all their time focused on and "working" toward getting new types of debilitating illnesses. Literally all their time is spent this way; there's very little mention of work, eating food, sex for pleasure, or talking to other people in this novel, because the two protagonists do not do those things. Actually, they have avoided them for as long as they possibly can.
They only feel alive when they're "crashing" from symptoms, and so they team up to "chase" any illness that may put their bodies out of commission. They dig deep into bins on the street, licking the items they find in hopes of catching something serious (not food poisoning, that's too short-term to feel satisfying). They visit urgent care, offering tissues to sick people to get close to them, reaching into the hazardous waste bins and retrieving used needles to stab themselves when the nurses leave them alone in the room.
Their relationship is an example of how getting into a cycle of self-harm can take over your life, consuming all your thoughts. Author Michael J. Seidlinger presents a fascinating exploration of this dynamic through two depressed loners who are desperate to catch a fever that makes their skin break out into rashes.
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