Her body and other parties, stories, Carmen Maria Machado
Type
Label
Her body and other parties, stories, Carmen Maria Machado
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Her body and other parties
Oclc number
965738096
Responsibility statement
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 & Order: Special Victims Unit, a show naively assumed it had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgangers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes
Table Of Contents
The husband stitch -- Inventory -- Mothers -- Especially heinous -- Real women have bodies -- Eight bites -- The resident -- Difficult at parties