Human Slices

About the Book

Human Slices is a love story about a woman who is happily childfree. It's her natural choice.

She spells her name S-A-L-M but pronounces it Sam. "The l is silent," she says. It's her way of combining her given name, Samantha, with her father's nickname for her, Little Salmon.

It's the late 1980s in Chicago, and she and her friends, all in their thirties, are thinking about what's next in their lives and how, and if, they're going to determine their own destinies.

On a promising spring day, Salm visits the Museum of Science and Industry and makes her way to the human slices exhibit. It's always been one of her favorite displays, a series of cross-sections of the human body, real flesh and bones. She is fascinated by the thought that the same shapes and forms are stacked inside her own body, influencing her moves and decisions.

When a tall, intriguing man approaches the exhibit, Salm makes a natural choice: She follows him.

About the Author

Gloria Bowman is a writer who lives and works in Chicago. Human Slices is her first novel.