Carmen Maria Machado
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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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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.Details About Books Her Body and Other Parties
| Title | : | Her Body and Other Parties |
| Author | : | Carmen Maria Machado |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary 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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Ratings: 3.91 From 32463 Users | 4780 ReviewsCrit About Books Her Body and Other Parties
4.5 stars, because this Nebula-nominated novelette is just so well-wrought and hard-hitting, even though I'm not on board with its worldview.* "The Husband Stitch" is a subtly disturbing, sexually explicit and well-written take on the old horror folk tale about the woman who always wears a ribbon around her neck. Machado weaves together old folk tales, urban legends and some meta aspects, where she addresses the reader directly. It's pretty brilliant, actually.This is a strong and overtly2.5 starsCarmen Maria Machado's Her Body and Other Parties is a collection I was so excited to read I dragged a friend in to read it with me. We handed off back and forth who got to pick the next story, never going in order, and found ourselves surprisingly disappointed by each one. In all honesty, I was drawn to what Machado was trying to do here, to what she was trying to say. But, she didn't say it with enough force. Some of her stories, such as "Real Women Have Bodies" and "Eight Bites"
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
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
Queer fiction is vital. Heteronormativity operates by requiring queer people to be immediately explicit to detail our bodies, lives, + loves such that we can be immediately intelligible to straight society. The coming out narrative is not just a heteronormative fantasy, it is a narrative crisis. Queer writers are pigeon-holed into self-narration because the expectation is that our stories should always be didactic, as if they exist to demystify our sexuality/gender which is already always
This is a difficult review to write because I have a lot of mixed feelings.Her Body and Other Parties is like most short story collections I have read in that some of the stories worked for me far more than others. It is a strange, experimental, feminist collection that often crosses into fantasy, dystopia and/or magical realism. Some of the stories stepped out of the land of weird into, I feel, the land of nonsensical and absurdist. I liked these stories less than the others.Perhaps it is
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.
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