Loved itHer Body and Other Parties also made my list. I feel like people don't talk about this one enough. Short stories but really a mix of imaginative stuff and familiar kind of stories.
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Her Body and Other Parties (2017)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive In this electric and provocative debut, Carmen Maria 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 naively assumeded had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgangers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes.
- ISBN:
- 9781665143578
- Length:
- 129 pages
Genres: fantasy, science fiction, horror
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Loved itHer body and other parties. Ooh, do I like that? More or less than drinking from graveyards, wells? Ooh, I think slightly more. Not by a lot. It's also I've read it twice.
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Loved itI have to mention one of my favorite short story Collections and just one of my favorite books of all time and that is her body and other parties I've talked about this book so many times
Loved itI love her writing I loved her bullies and other parties but I did prefer in the dream house
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