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Her Body and Other Parties: Stories - Kindle edition by Machado, Carmen Maria. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Her Body and Other Parties: Stories/5(K). Her Body and Other Parties is the debut book by Carmen Maria Machado, whose movie reviews I was familiar with in the Los Angeles Times. Published in , I bit on this short story collection with the publisher's promise of fiction that "borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism."/5(K). My debut story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, was published by Graywolf Press in In , the New York Times listed Her Body and Other Parties as a member of "The New Vanguard," one of "15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century."A television show based on Her Body and Other Parties is currently in development at FX.

Carmen Maria Machado, in Her Body and Other Parties (Serpent's Tail; $), offers eight genre-bending tales about women on the verge of physical and mental collapse. She threads her debut with fantasies, horror stories, fairytales, fables and science fiction, all with a unifying background of queer theory. A finalist for the National Book Awards, it's an enthralling, if uneven. By Shana E. Hadi on February 4, Carmen Maria Machado's debut collection of short stories, "Her Body and Other Parties," oscillates between the horrifying and humorous, the fantastical. "Her Body Other Parties - fifth story - Real Women Have Bodies" by Carmen Maria Machado Posted on 11/02/ 11/02/ by Mike Finn "Real Women Have Bodies", the fifth story in "Her Body Other Parties", is a vividly told, deeply disturbing story that reminded me of how edgy speculative fiction can be.

Verified Purchase. Her Body And Other Parties is a collection of not-so-short stories that oscillate (often in the same story) among feminism, lesbian relationships, horror, dystopia, and the general tragedy of being human. It is a women's book, nested deeply within women's physiology, psychology, eroticism, and sociology. Her Body and Other Parties: Stories — Carmen Maria Machado. My debut story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, was published by Graywolf Press in In , the New York Times listed Her Body and Other Parties as a member of " The New Vanguard," one of "15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction. The stories in Carmen Maria Machado’s 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 they’ve been given everything and bodies, so many human bodies taking up space and straining the seams of skin.