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Her Body and Other Parties is a 2017 short story collection by the writer Carmen Maria Machado, published by Graywolf Press. [1] The collection won the Shirley Jackson Award, [2] and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction. [3] The story "The Husband Stitch" was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novelette.
Oct 3, 2017 · 3.84. 90,360 ratings13,435 reviews. A prize-winning, genre-bending collection of short stories that has already achieved cult status, Her Body and Other Parties is unique, unsettling and totally original. Carmen Maria Machado demolishes the borders between magical realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism.
Oct 3, 2017 · 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.
Apr 15, 2022 · In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado knows where the bodies are buried. The Vox Book Club’s April pick is a tour de force short story collection. by Constance Grady. Apr...
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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Oct 3, 2017 · 4.2 4,688 ratings. Editors' pick Best Science Fiction & Fantasy. See all formats and editions. Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction. “ [These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange.”—Roxane Gay.
