October 2021 – According to the Arts

An MRI Literary Image of a Guilty Conscience

According to the art: A passage is excerpted from the novel, Nervous System, in which a character’s conscience is generated during an MRI scan.

Nervous System

What These Works Say

According to the art: The novel is about a family making its way through life dodging obstacles in the forms of illness, injury, death, and grief. The obstacles dominate the book, and are described in unusual, clever, and striking ways.