Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Rachel Smythe An unforgettable debut

An unforgettable debut

But these streets are far from abandoned

her grandparents

questioning everything she thought she knew about family

• Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read •

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Rachel Smythe An unforgettable debutBeloved, best selling science writer Mary Roachs acutely entertaining, morbidly fascinating (Susan Adams, Forbes) classic, now with a new epilogue. For two thousand years, cadavers some willingly, some unwittingly have been involved in sciences boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. Theyve tested Frances first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and