Her Body and Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado torrent

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.
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 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 we naively assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgangers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes.

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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