"This book is a searching inventory of a life altered by pain, punctuated with forays into history, etymology, theology, and poetics. It's a stubborn, tender record of the unrecordable, a brave attempt to describe something that cannot ever be truly communicated. A beautiful howl of a book."--Jordan Kisner, author, Thin Places: Essays from In Between

"The Body Alone is a moving book debut with a lyrical meditation on the 'land of in-between, ' an invisible kingdom between sickness and wellness that Lohman has inhabited since 2007. . . . All facets of her identity--wife and mother, friend and coworker--have been changed by her pain. If theologians see pain as 'a portal to the divine, ' Lohman has come to see it as complex and contradictory, with the potential to incite creativity--and, as her elegant prose attests, even beauty. A graceful memoir of suffering and coping."--Kirkus, starred review

"Eloquent, compelling, memorable, candid, insightful, informative, thoughtful, and thought-provoking, The Body Alone is an extraordinary and unreservedly recommended addition to personal, professional, community, and college/university library Pain Management collections and supplemental Chronic Pain curriculum studies lists."--Midwest Book Review

". . . this book is all encompassing. It has to be. To fully articulate that which has no prior definitions--to make sense of a pain that no one else, professional or otherwise, can quantify--has to come from a place that is as exhaustive as it is deeply personal. The Body Alone is that and all of the above."--Little Village