The Gifts of the Body the patients and the caregiver. The book contains ten short stories, the titles of each being associated with "gifts" which are various functions of the body, both physical and emotional: sweat, wholeness, tears, skin, hunger, mobility, death, speech, sight, hope, and mourning. The caregiver experiences each "gift", as he/she deals with patients who have AIDS, showing the different shared relationships in each case. Each patient is a distinct case, differing in terms of age, financial situation, attitude toward the illness etc., showing the reader that this disease affects all types of people. The book is written in the "no-frills style"
Kathleen Ritter Kathleen Ritter Kathleen Ritter (born 1974) is an artist, curator, and writer based in Vancouver and Paris who focuses on contemporary art. Ritter graduated from the Emily Carr University of Art + Design with a BFA in 1998 and obtained an MFA from the University of Western Ontario in 2005. In 2013, Ritter was an artist in residence at La Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and worked at the Vancouver Art Gallery as Associate Curator. She was a visiting artist in residency at Open Studio, Toronto, in the spring of 2017. Ritter also works as a part of the