Monday, October 17, 2022

Books: The Language of Bodies

Maddie Wells’ life spirals out of control after the murder of her wife Char, a transgender woman of color. Hunger for revenge drives Maddie to take a job at a wax museum near the murderer's hometown, where she studies revenge and plots how to strike back. Befriending the murderer’s wife is the first stage in Maddie’s plan to make him pay. 

 

The Language of Bodies probes the seduction of vengeance using vivid, sensual imagery to explore how love transcends the particulars of body parts, and how revenge blurs the line between victim and perpetrator, hero and villain. It’s a gorgeous, dark tale about the enduring power of love, and the human spirit’s unwillingness to give up. 

 

Suzanne Dewitt Hall is the author of the Where True Love Is LGBQI+ devotional series, and the Rumplepimple Adventures.She's been a contributor for the Huffington Post, Impact Magazine, and Cognoscenti. Honors include being awarded the 2019 LGBTQ+ Writer Scholarship for Grub Street’s Muse and the Marketplace conference, and named Author of the Month for February 2019 by LGBTQ Reader (@books_gay) on Twitter.