"[PDF READ ONLINE] In the First Circle Paperback – Deckle Edge, October 13, 2009
A funny and profound meditation on the complexity of chronic illness and the ache of desire.At a clinic in Northern California, five women recline on patio lounge chairs. They are fasting, drinking only water or juice in the hope that the deprivation will help their bodies begin to heal from a litany of afflictions—cancers and autoimmune disorders and thyroid conditions and mysterious infections. To distract t"