Mary Roach

It's just, it's very complicated.

And I don't have a background in genetics.

I'm a liberal arts major.

And I'm like, I don't even know if I want to take this off.

You know, science is...

like the era of bodies on slabs is gone.

We're talking protein receptors and genomes and things that can't easily be described visually for people in the way that I like to do it.

But then, you know, you immerse yourself in a topic and very quickly I realized that's absurd.

You really have to cover that to some extent.

So initially I'm always more interested in the human elements of things.

You know, this book, in addition to the finger thing,

And I had also around that time, the other Kohler faucet was I'd gotten an email from a reader, Judy Berna, who said, your next book needs to be about professional football referees, which made no sense to me at all.

I don't watch football.

I never talked about football.

Anyway, that was what she thought.

But we started communicating.

because I wrote back to her because I was intrigued by why she thought that.

But anyway, she happened to mention that she's an amputee.

And I said, oh, well, what's new in the world of amputation?

And as one does, and she said, well, I'm actually, I'm an elective amputee, elective amputation, meaning somebody who makes a decision or wants to have a limb cut off because it's not