About This Book
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"What the Body Requires is to the mind what chocolate is to the tongue -- rich and decadent." --Carolyn Szczepanski, The Pitch
"Some moments involve hi stakes situations and a bit of mystery, though I'd never call What the Body Requires a genre novel. This book is highly sexual, but never cliched. Di Blasi just kills it." --The Next Best Book Blog
"Highly ambitious and of the deepest seriousness... with an evocative prose and an exotic, vividly imagined landscape. The consistency with which the writing invests everyday actions and objects with an almost erotic fervor is truly extraordinary."
-R.M. Berry, author of Leonardo's Horse, Dictionary of Modern Anguish, and Frank
DESCRIPTION: Madeline Rivera goes to Europe to kill her husband, a musician, but falls in love with his doppleganger, an Italian policeman. Structured as a symphony, What the Body Requires explores a woman's sexuality and passion for art as she slides into the madness of revenge. Structured around an elaborate symphony, What the Body Requires is ripe with music references, musicians and the intentionally overt drama of opera.
