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Provocative tales of surreal, feminist realities.

"Her Body and Other Parties" is a literary journey that defies conventional storytelling, blending the fantastical with the all-too-real challenges faced by women. Carmen Maria Machado’s narratives are fearless and vivid, making this collection a compelling read for anyone intrigued by the intersection of horror, fantasy, and the female experience. Her unique voice is both haunting and empowering, ensuring these stories linger long after the last page.

  • Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novelette (2015)
  • World Fantasy Award Nominee for Collection (2018)
  • PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2018)
  • Shirley Jackson Award for Single-Author Collection (2017)
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction (2017)
  • James Tiptree Jr. Award Nominee (2017)
  • Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction (2017)
  • Dylan Thomas Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2018)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award for John Leonard Prize (2017)
  • NAIBA Book of the Year for Fiction (2018)
  • National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2017)
  • Kirkus Prize Nominee for Fiction (2017)
  • Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize for Fiction and Poetry (2018)
  • The Publishing Triangle Award Nominee for The Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction (2018)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

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ISBN: 9781555977887
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Date of Publication: 2017-10-03
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Horror, Fantasy, Contemporary
Related Topics: Fantasy, Magical Realism
Goodreads rating: 3.84
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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. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. 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. Earthy and otherworldly, antic and sexy, queer and caustic, comic and deadly serious, 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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Provocative tales of surreal, feminist realities.

"Her Body and Other Parties" is a literary journey that defies conventional storytelling, blending the fantastical with the all-too-real challenges faced by women. Carmen Maria Machado’s narratives are fearless and vivid, making this collection a compelling read for anyone intrigued by the intersection of horror, fantasy, and the female experience. Her unique voice is both haunting and empowering, ensuring these stories linger long after the last page.

  • Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novelette (2015)
  • World Fantasy Award Nominee for Collection (2018)
  • PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2018)
  • Shirley Jackson Award for Single-Author Collection (2017)
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction (2017)
  • James Tiptree Jr. Award Nominee (2017)
  • Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction (2017)
  • Dylan Thomas Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2018)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award for John Leonard Prize (2017)
  • NAIBA Book of the Year for Fiction (2018)
  • National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2017)
  • Kirkus Prize Nominee for Fiction (2017)
  • Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize for Fiction and Poetry (2018)
  • The Publishing Triangle Award Nominee for The Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction (2018)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.