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Her Body and Other Parties: Stories - Paperback
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Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
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Is this book for you?
- Feels
- Eerie, Mind-bending, Melancholy
- Kind of story
- Short stories, Literary horror, Myths and fairy tales
- About
- Queer stories, Desire, Identity
- Pace
- Steady
- How dark
- 3 of 5. Dark, with real menace
- Romance
- A subplot
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Eight stories about women's bodies, ghosts, fairy tales, and the violence people pretend not to see.
A woman with a green ribbon around her neck that her husband must never untie. A plague that makes people fade away. A retelling of every episode of Law & Order: SVU that turns into something haunted.
Machado's debut collection mixes horror, fairy tale, science fiction, and literary fiction, and it was a finalist for the National Book Award.
Reader note: Contains explicit sexual content.
Details
- Author: Carmen Maria Machado
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781555977887
Praise
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Her Body and Other Parties, by Carmen Maria Machado, is a love letter to an obstinate genre that won't be gentrified.
Parul Sehgal, The New York Times
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Carmen Maria Machado has managed to have readers, critics and everyone in-between sitting on the edge of their seats for the chance to read her debut story collection...
NBC
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[Machado's] use of a vivid experimental lens to show women struggling for agency is startling.
The New Yorker
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An abrupt, original, and wild collection of stories, full of outlandish myths that somehow catch at familiar, unspoken truths about being women in the world that more straightforward or realist writing wouldn't.
NPR.org
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