num_pages: 176
description: An emotionally wrenching work of fiction about a health-care worker who tenders compassion and love to victims of AIDS, by an author who "strips her language of convention to lay bare the ferocious rituals of love and need."--New York Times Book Review
language: English
title: The Gifts of the Body
titlecomplete: The Gifts of the Body
genres: Social Justice, LGBT, Historical, Gay, Medical, Disability, Short Stories, Queer Lit, Fiction, Queer
ratings_count: 585
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Lesbian Fiction
publisher: Harper Perennial