Her body and other parties, stories, Carmen Maria Machado
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Her body and other parties, stories, Carmen Maria Machado
Language
eng
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fiction
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Her body and other parties
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sound recording
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974672792
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Carmen Maria Machado
Sub title
stories
Summary
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 and Order: Special Victims Unit, a show naïvely assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgängers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes
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adult
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