The Body Politic
Brian Platzer
The Body Politic has all the ingredients of a novel I typically love: set in modern-day Manhattan, character-driven, morally ambiguous, and elegantly written. Needless to say, I had high expectations. This book fulfilled them. It never lost my attention; in fact, I only became more engrossed as I was pulled deeper into the fortunes (and misfortunes!) of the four friends. I saw myself in all of the
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