"The Patient Body is a book of intimate encounters, each short piece like a living film in a dynamic scrapbook, the most honest social media feed you'll ever read. No doom-scrolling here--only life-scrolling, with a core message: 'You are who you are, and I love you for it. I am who I am, so love me for it .' I loved walking through our ever-precarious world with Matthews and this message as my guide, meeting neighbors and strangers, dogs and bears, artists and family members, and his own patient body, back from the brink of death. The personal and the ordinary can save us, friends, this book says--so look around you. It's a message that buoys." --Dana Levin, author of Now Do You Know Where You Are "Matthews' luminous prose, rooted in place and rich sensory detail, tracks the major and minor impacts of life and the dividing lines the body crosses over to make a map of a nervous system." --Sonya Huber, author of Love and Industry: A Midwestern Workbook.