Headcheese

<p>The day that Lorrie accidentally cuts off her little toe she discovers what it's like to be able-bodied and <em>not want that body.</em></p><p>After Bartholomew loses his left arm to a landmine he's inspired to start a new kind of church-one where both amputation and sex are types of performance art.</p><p>Trice a prosthetics engineer receives the assignment of a lifetime when he's asked to rebuild his son's crippled frame.</p><p>Haunted by the memory of his dead wife George must take the ultimate measure to excise her ghost. For good.</p><p>From sexual fetish to the clinical diagnosis of Body Integrity Identity Disorder <em>Headcheese </em>makes the first cut peeling back the epidermis to peer inside the minds and hearts of 26 people navigating the topography of flesh.</p><p><br></p><p>Jess Hagemann is an award-winning author and accomplished biographer. She lives in a quiet Austin neighborhood surrounded on three sides by cows. <em>Headcheese</em> is her first novel.</p>