Her Body and Other Parties
Recommended by Eva Victor, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #7 in Short Stories, Ranked #36 in Story — see more rankings.
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... more
A wife refuses her husband's entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her... more
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Her Body and Other Parties is ranked in the following categories:
- #37 in 2017
- #63 in Anthology
- #76 in Feminism
- #62 in Magical Realism
- #79 in Weird
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