The Body of the Thing, Karishma Jobanputra
The Body of the Thing, Karishma Jobanputra
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The Body of the Thing
Stories

Author: Karishma Jobanputra

Narrator: Soneela Nankani, Saskia Maarleveld, Emily Woo Zeller, Barrie Kreinik, Bailey Carr, Jane Oppenheimer, Natalie Naudus, Danielle Cohen

Unabridged: TBD

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/15/2026

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories


Synopsis

A lyrical and visceral short story collection, The Body of the Thing unpicks the hierarchies that thrum under our relationships, from first loves and lusts to motherhood and miscarriages, from sexual awakenings to final confrontations with death.Traversing bougie neighborhoods in Manhattan, sun-drenched piazzas in Italy, coastal Maine, and the bustle of London, these stories chase the fallout when women’s bodies are valued for their beauty and youth, dismissed and discarded when ill, or made useful as parents and caregivers. Fluid, sensual, and fearless, The Body of the Thing is about looking at and living in the female body—and all of its complicated realities and wonders.

About Karishma Jobanputra

Karishma Jobanputra is a British-Indian writer currently based in London. A graduate of Columbia University’s MFA Fiction program, her work has been listed for the Brick Lane Short Story Prize and the Disquiet Literary Prize for Fiction. The Body of the Thing is her first book. 

About Soneela Nankani

Soneela Nankani is an award-winning narrator with over three hundred titles in many different genres including Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi, and Nonfiction. She has garnered sixteen Earphones Awards, nominations for Audie and SOVAS awards, and was recently awarded AudioFile magazine’s Golden Voice Lifetime Achievement Honor. Her audiobooks have been featured in Best Audiobooks lists by AudioFile magazine and the Washington Post, among others. In her spare time, she loves to read (yes, really), learn languages, try new recipes, and travel. She lives in the DC area with her husband and two mischievous daughters.

About Saskia Maarleveld

Saskia Maarleveld is an experienced voice-over actress and Earphones Award–winning narrator. Raised in New Zealand and France, she is highly skilled with accents and dialects, and many of her books have been narrated entirely in accents other than her own. In addition to audiobooks, her voice can be heard in animation, video games, and commercials.

About Emily Woo Zeller

Emily Woo Zeller is an Audie and Earphones Award–winning narrator, voice-over artist, actor, dancer, and choreographer. AudioFile magazine named her one of the Best Voices of 2013. Her voice-over career includes work in animated film and television in Southeast Asia.

About Barrie Kreinik

Barrie Kreinik is an actor, singer, playwright, and voice-dialect coach based in New York City. Her audiobook narrations have earned an AudioFile Earphones Award. A graduate of the Brown/Trinity MFA acting program, she is a proud member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA.

About Bailey Carr

Bailey Carr is a New York City–based audiobook narrator. She graduated with a BFA in acting from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Bailey has narrated audiobooks for multiple New York Times bestselling authors.

About Jane Oppenheimer

Jane Oppenheimer is an experienced narrator, voiceover artist, and actress with a bachelor's degree in theater from Carnegie Mellon University. She has narrated numerous audiobooks and has performed on stage in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Her voiceover work can be heard on commercials as well as corporate campaigns and short documentaries.

About Natalie Naudus

Natalie Naudus is one of the most beloved audiobook narrators working today and now author of her debut novel, Gay the Pray Away.

About Danielle Cohen

Danielle Cohen is an award-winning audiobook narrator who grew up reading anything and everything aloud. At the age of eight, she dreamed of being a newsreader or a stand-up comedian. When not narrating audiobooks, she can be found running with friends, playing board games with her husband and teenage daughters, or baking cake. She currently resides in Vermont.


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Quotes

“Reading Karishma Jobanputra’s The Body of the Thing feels like driving on a highway by the ocean, with the windows down and the salt wind coming through: visceral, electric, alive, full of the full-throated song and hurtling velocity of youth itself, in all its frenzy and surrender and ache and mistakes and yearning.” Leslie Jamison

“Arresting, beautiful, humorous, observant, serious, all at the same time.” Paul Beatty

“Karishma pulls off a rare trick. Her strange world is incredibly compelling. Her cityscape is undefined and yet familiar, its people hover within seeking ever elusive connection” Vanessa Branson

“These stories are contemporary portraits of life across continents. Jobanputra’s careful prose depicts all the anxiety and claustrophobia of being alive. I can’t remember the last time I read a collection so compulsively.”  Sarvat Hasin

“Heady and visceral, sharp and intoxicating, these absorbing stories portray human desires, appetites and obsessions in all their unruly beauty. Karishma Jobanputra is a bold and gifted writer—one to celebrate and one to watch.” Ben Hinshaw