Description
A debut collection of 11 genre-bending stories, Please Don’t Touch the Body follows women and outsiders as they navigate loneliness and the fragile, sustaining power of community. Across sharply inventive scenarios—from a Japanese woman rebuilding her life through a secret career as a sex advice columnist to a reincarnated Ronald Reagan learning what it means to be handled, contained, and cared for—these tales examine religion and repression, desire and consent, and the pleasure and pain of womanhood. With turns tender and irreverent, Emily Doyle blends emotional realism with bold imaginative leaps to ask what it costs to be seen, and what it takes to reclaim agency. Thrillingly alive to the devastation—and possibility—of being human today, these stories announce a distinctive new voice to watch.
Available Editions
paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing
Published Jul 14, 2026
ISBN: 9781639736256
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Details
First Published
2026
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Please Don’t Touch the Body: Stories by Emily Doyle.