The place: central Florida. The situation: a sensational murder
trial, set in a courthouse more Soviet than Le Corbusier; a rich, white
teenage girl—a twin—on trial for murdering her toddler brother.
Two of the jurors: Hannah, a married fifty-two-year-old former Rolling
Stone and Interview Magazine photographer of rock stars and socialites
(she began to photograph animals when she realized she saw people “as a
species”), and Graham, a forty-one-year-old anatomy professor. Both are
sequestered (she, juror C-2; he, F-17) along with the other jurors at
the Econo Lodge off I-75.
As the shocking and numbing details of the
crime are revealed during a string of days and courtroom hours, and the
nights play out in a series of court-financed meals at Outback Steak
House (the state isn’t paying for their drinks) and Red Lobster, Hannah
and Graham fall into a furtive affair, keeping their oath as jurors
never to discuss the trial. During deliberations the lovers learn that
they are on opposing sides of the case. Suddenly they look at one
another through an altogether different lens, as things become more
complicated . . .
After the verdict, Hannah returns home to her
much older husband, but the case ignites once again and Hannah’s “one
last dalliance before she is too old” takes on profoundly personal and
moral consequences as The Body in Question moves to its affecting,
powerful, and surprising conclusion.
ID: TH - 490
TH - 490 | The Body in Question by Jill Ciment
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