“One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year…. Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting.” Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers—some willingly, some unwittingly—have been involved in science’s boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They’ve tested France’s first guillotine...