6/22/2023 0 Comments Her body and other parties genre![]() ![]() A dark, shimmering slice into womanhood, Her Body and Other Parties is wicked and exquisite.Ĭarmen Maria Machado has been publishing stories since 2012, to great acclaim in both literary and genre circles, and in both literary and genre markets, including Granta and Strange Horizons finally, she has brought out a debut collection of a precise collection of her tales. One woman’s surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted house guest.īodies become inconsequential, humans become monstrous, and anger becomes erotic. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery about a store’s dresses. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague spreads across the earth. Startling narratives map the realities of women’s lives and the violence visited on their bodies, both in myth and in practice.Ī wife refuses her husband’s entreaties to remove the mysterious green ribbon from around her neck. ![]() In her provocative debut, Carmen Maria Machado demolishes the borders between magical realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. ![]()
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