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Her Body and Other Parties

Carmen Maria Machado

Paperback | Pages: 248 pages

Rating: 3.91 | 32463 Users | 4780 Reviews

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Title	:	Her Body and Other Parties
Author	:	Carmen Maria Machado
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 248 pages
Published	:	October 3rd 2017 by Graywolf Press
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. Horror. Fantasy. Feminism. Magical Realism. LGBT

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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. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. 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. 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 we naively assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgangers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes. Earthy and otherworldly, antic and sexy, queer and caustic, comic and deadly serious, Her Body and Other Parties swings from horrific violence to the most exquisite sentiment. In their explosive originality, these stories enlarge the possibilities of contemporary fiction.

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Original Title:	Her Body and Other Parties
ISBN:	155597788X (ISBN13: 9781555977887)
Edition Language:	English URL https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/her-body-and-other-parties
Literary Awards:	Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novelette (2015), World Fantasy Award Nominee for Collection (2018), PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2018), Shirley Jackson Award for Single Author Collection (2017), Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction (2017) Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction (2018), Dylan Thomas Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2018), National Book Critics Circle Award for John Leonard Prize (2017), NAIBA Book of the Year for Fiction (2018), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2017), Kirkus Prize Nominee for Fiction (2017), Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize for Fiction & Poetry (2018)

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A creepy, beautiful, disturbing tale that will haunt me for a long, long time! A blend of horror stories and urban legends, "The Husband Stitch" explores the implications of a husband trying to control every part of his wife's life and not letting her keep anything private. A wife, he says, should have no secrets from her husband. I dont have any secrets, I tell him. The ribbon. The ribbon is not a secret, its just mine. The story touches on the loss of self in a relationship, and how it is

I don't know, I just could not get into any of the stories and it took me a hell lot of willpower to pick this book back up after I put it down lol

An uneven but intermittently superb collection of stories about female dislocation, in which America's obsessive anxiety about gender is refracted through a series of different formats, from fantasy to horror to experimental playfulness.The opening story, The Husband Stitch (a version of which can be read online), is a kind of erotic and violent folktale which inevitably brings Angela Carter to mind, and which doesn't suffer from the comparison. I loved it, finding it creepy and sexy and

*long keening noise only uttered in the shadow of a perfect book*

A BONUS Carmen Marie Machado story worth a read: The Lost Performance of the High Priestess of the Temple of HorrorI only know how to scream, she said. Marcel placed his hand on her thigh. And thats all anyone wants from me.****** I choose this life, the prostitute says to the social worker. I do. Please put your energy into helping girls who arent here by choice. She is so right. She is murdered anyway. Strange, visceral, but altogether, a little confusing for me.First of all, I absolutely

The stories in Carmen Maria Machados Her Body and Other Parties vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange. Her voracious imagination and extraordinary voice beautifully bind these stories about fading women and the end of the world and men who want more when theyve been given everything and bodies, so many human bodies taking up space and straining the seams of skin in impossible, imperfect, unforgettable ways.

You can read this for free: Here from Granta!Oh my God. This was the best short story I have ever read in my entire life. I'm writing this review in tears, because it was so immensely powerful. My hands are shaking, because this story is so real and so relevant. My stomach is in knots, because I'm not sure any combination of words I will create will do this story justice. This story is very feminist and very sexually explicit, but so damn important. It's about the life of a woman, who gives