"Dog days and the fresh bodies are arriving once again." So begins
the fall term at South Carolina Medical College, where Dr. Jacob
Thacker is on probation for Xanax abuse. His interim career working
public relations for the dean takes an unnerving detour into the
past when the bones of African American slaves, over a century old,
are unearthed on campus. Out of the college s dark past, these
bones threaten to rise and condemn the present.
In the middle of the nineteenth century, Dr. Frederick Augustus
Johnston, one of the school s founders, had purchased a slave for
his unusual knife skills. This slave, Nemo ("no man") would become
an unacknowledged member of the surgical faculty by day and by
night, a "resurrectionist," responsible for procuring bodies for
medical study. An unforgettable character, by turns apparently
insouciant, tormented, and brilliant, and seen by some as almost
supernatural, Nemo will seize his self-respect in ways no reader
can anticipate.
With exceptional storytelling pacing and skill, Matthew Guinn
weaves together past and present to relate a Southern Gothic tale
of shocking crimes and exquisite revenge, a riveting and satisfying
moral parable of the South."
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