Please Don't Touch the Body: Stories by Doyle, Emily

Please Don't Touch the Body: Stories

"A magnificent debut" (Laila Lalami) that explores loneliness and community, religion and repression, and the pleasure and...
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Author: Emily Doyle
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Please Don't Touch the Body: Stories by Doyle, Emily

Please Don't Touch the Body: Stories

$32.38

Please Don't Touch the Body: Stories

$32.38
Author: Emily Doyle
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

"A magnificent debut" (Laila Lalami) that explores loneliness and community, religion and repression, and the pleasure and pain of womanhood.
By turns tender and irreverent, the 11 genre-bending stories in Please Don't Touch the Body are thrillingly concerned with the devastation-and power-of being alive today.

In the collection's first story, a Japanese woman finds healing in a secret life as a sex advice columnist after being fetishized by her white husband for decades. In the fourth story, Ronald Reagan is reincarnated as a puppy and must cope with being squeezed, dropped, and controlled by his young, queer owner. And in "Thank You No Thank You," a young woman grapples with the rules she learned in her religious childhood, the freedoms of her new and more liberal life, and her actual desires as she vacations with her long-term boyfriend.

Together these inventive, emotionally rich stories reveal an incredible new vision and "a writer to watch" (Rita Chang-Eppig).

Author: Emily Doyle
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 07/14/2026
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.60w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781639736256


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 05/01/2026 pg. 117
Booklist 06/01/2026
Shelf Awareness 01/01/0001
Publishers Weekly 06/29/2026

About the Author
Emily Doyle is the author of the debut collection Please Don't Touch the Body and her forthcoming debut novel, Encounter. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, the Kenyon Review, the Sun, and elsewhere, and she has received numerous awards, including the Abraham Lincoln Polonsky Endowed Award and the Bread Loaf-Rona Jaffe Foundation Participant Scholarship. She lives in Los Angeles and teaches at UC Riverside.

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