Mr. A, who recently experienced the death of his father, faced an absurd situation. He was notified that his father’s rental contract for a Body Friend massage chair required him to pay a penalty for ...

In Katherine Brabon’s third novel, Body Friend, the narrator is never named. She’s a woman who knows herself best when she’s in the greatest physical pain, a result of an illness which also goes ...

A woman convalescing from an operation considers her relationship to her body, in Australian writer Brabon’s meditative U.S. debut. The unnamed narrator, a 20-something graduate student with an ...