Her Body and Other Parties
Stories
About this book
In this electric and provocative debut, Carmen Maria Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies. A wife refuses her husband's entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery within the seams of the store's prom dresses. One woman's surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted houseguest. And in the bravura novella 'Especially Heinous,' Machado reimagines every episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a show naively assumeded had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgangers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes.
Subjects
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- contemporary
- fantasy
- feminism
- ferro-grumley award for lgbtq fiction finalist
- fiction
- fiction, short stories (single author)
- general
- horror
- horror fiction
- identity
- lambda literary awards
- lambda literary award winner
- lesbian characters
- lgbt
- lgbtq short stories
- libido
- magical realism
- man-woman relationships
- queer
- science fiction
- sexual minorities
- short stories
- short stories (single author)
- women