Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

from jsheilas

Carmen Maria Machado's collection of stories offers pitch black satire commenting on a spectrum of experiences based on body image, race, mental illness, and sexuality. The audiobook is narrated evenly, allowing for interpretation to remain in the listener's control. Several stories stand out in ...

from Narshkite

When people do things that are really different, really dazzling, elements are not going work. Same old same old is easy to do well and consistently, but innovation requires failure. This book is like nothing I have ever read, and parts of it are in fact dazzling, and also emotionally affecting, ...

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An uneven but intermittently superb collection of stories about female dislocation, in which America's obsessive anxiety about gender is refracted through a series of different formats, from fantasy to horror to experimental playfulness. The opening story, ‘The Husband Stitch' (a version of which...

from KatyBee

Reading and listening to the story collection “Her Body and Other Parties” by Carmen Maria Machado is like drinking a mysterious dark wine. These are a rich, multilayered modern fairy tales that are feminist, speculative, and replete with ghosts and fluid sexuality and lots of bodies. Many have d...

from mooingzelda

This is a brilliant collection of stories that blur the boundaries between realist and more fantastical fiction. I loved so much about it - the writing style, the characters, the unashamed focus on women's desires and queer lives, the inventive plots. I don't think there's a single weak story i...