![]() In Grunt, her new book, it’s military science she wants to explore. She would go on to walk us through outer space ( Packing for Mars), digestion ( Gulp), ghosts ( Spook) and sex ( Bonk). Funny but not glib, nosy but not prurient, Roach is the consummate tour guide. ![]() “A goober with a flashlight,” she calls herself. You went along willingly nonetheless, because Roach is such a winsome presence. Nary a page went by without some blood and gore. It showed you decapitated heads kept in roasting pans, where young plastic surgeons learned to do nose jobs on the flesh of the dead. ![]() Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, published in 2003, took you on a tour of a body farm at the University of Tennessee, where corpses lay rotting in the grass. When we first met her, she was knee-deep in a stack of dead people. ![]() Mary Roach’s curiosity is notoriously infectious. ![]()
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