An acclaimed work of electronic literature and hypertext fiction, Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl exploits the digital medium to create a non-linear narrative that may run in several different directions, like a web, depending on which piece of the story and corresponding images the reader selects. Because the story itself is morcellated, just as the body of the female creature (the “patchwork girl”) at its center is, text and body are co-identified. This relationship places the reader in a role of needing to gather together the disjointed parts of the narrative through the patchwork girl’s body. Mediated by clicks of a mouse or trackpad that can seem to lead anywhere in space, in contrast with the codex whose pages reach a defined endpoint with each turn, the body of this digital book interacts with the reader by voicing the demand: “if you want to see the whole, you will have to sew me together yourself.”.