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Also published as "Body of Glass" outside the USA.

A novel set in the past, present and future when the world society has fallen apart and a new order is established. But even here, the Golems are needed - figures who protect the Jews persecuted yet again as they were in 17th century Prague and mid-20th century Europe.

Connie Ramos, a woman in her mid-thirties, has been declared insane. But Connie is overwhelmingly sane, merely tuned to the future, and able to communicate with the year 2137. As her doctors persuade her to agree to an operation, Connie struggles to force herself to listen to the future and its lessons for today....

In a candid and intimate new collection of essays, poems, memoirs, reviews, rants, and railleries, Piercy discusses her own development as a working-class feminist, the highs and lows of TV culture, the ego-dances of a writer's life, the homeless and the housewife, Allen Ginsberg and Marilyn Monroe, feminist utopias (and why she doesn't live in one), why fiction isn't physics; and of course, fame, sex, and money, not necessarily in that order. The short essays, poems, and personal memoirs intermingle like shards of glass that shine, reflect--and cut. Always personal yet always political, Piercy's work is drawn from a deep well of feminist and political activism.

Also featured is our Outspoken Interview, in which the author lays out her personal rules for living on Cape Cod, finding your poetic voice, and making friends in Cuba.

Contents:

• A Dissatisfaction without a Name
• The More We See the Less We Know
• Headline: Lawmaker destroys shopping carts
• Gentrification and Its Discontents
• What they call acts of god
• Statement on Censorship for the Pennsylvania Review
• Fame, Fortune, and Other Tawdry Illusions
• Housewives without Houses
• The hows; there is no why
• "Living off the Grid" Outspoken Interview with Marge Piercy
• Touched by Ginsberg at a (Relatively) Tender Age
• Tabula Rasa with Boobs
• Nice words for ugly acts
• Why Speculate on the Future?
• My Life, My Body
• Behind the war on women
• Never Catch a Break
• Port Huron Conference Statement
• Who has little, let them have less
• Bibliography