Jurors C-2 and F-17 start an affair at the beginning of a tabloid murder trial. She is in her early 50s and married to a man thirty years older; she wants a last chance at a “dalliance.” F-17 is lonely and looking for love. The body has its own needs and rhythms, Climent’s book suggests, separate and apart from the logic of the rest of our lives. The novel alternates between the trial and sketches of its physical evidence, and their encounters while sequestered. ‘The Body in Question’ is an unusual novel, simultaneously contemporary *and* philosophical, concerned as it is with big questions about life and mortality and obligation.