A moving memoir of the relationship between a cadaver and the first-year medical student who cuts her open. The author becomes utterly intrigued by the person the woman once was, humbled by the sacrifice she had made in donating her body, and fascinated by the strange, unsettling beauty of the human form. "[Raudman reads] with just the right level of emotion. Her tone, like Montross's writing, is often irreverent and dryly funny, without ever being disrespectful."—AudioFile