![]() ![]() ![]() The collection, which moves between the genres of fantasy, horror, and satire, was shortlisted for the 2017 National Book Award Fiction Prize and the International Dylan Thomas Prize. And in the bravura novella Especially Heinous, Machado reimagines every episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a show we naïvely assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgängers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes. Her Body and Other Parties is a short story collection published in October of 2017 by debut author Carmen Maria Machado. ![]() One woman's surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted houseguest. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery within the seams of the store's prom dresses. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.Ī wife refuses her husband's entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. ![]() While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. Description: 245 pages 21 cm Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2017. In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. Her body and other parties : stories / Carmen Maria Machado. ![]()
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