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Carmen Maria Machado

Her Body and Other Parties

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Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction

“[These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange.”—Roxane Gay
“In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to women's memories and hunger and desire. I couldn't put it down.”—Karen Russell

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…
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  • forgetenotshared an impression4 years ago
    💀Spooky
    🔮Hidden Depths
    🚀Unputdownable

    Это книжка не из тех, что можно пролистать и больше не открывать. Она многослойная, каждый рассказ утаивает больше, чем говорит. Можно после каждого рассказа погуглить эссе на английском, про них много уже написано, чтобы разобраться в скрытых глубинах. Или читать ее с книжным клубом подруг, обсуждая личные реакции на истории. Это сборник о том, что такое быть женщиной — многоголосый, где сны перемешиваются с явью, часто очень физиологичный и эмоциональный. Хочется перечитывать и обдумывать, чтобы разобраться.

  • b8335609878shared an impression2 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    🔮Hidden Depths

    whoa.

  • juliasegura97shared an impression6 years ago
    👎Give This a Miss
    🙈Lost On Me

    Definitely not for me. It was not at all what I expected. Although the writing is good and had some inetresting plot-twists, it finally did not grab my attention or interest...

Quotes

  • Артем Уроевhas quoted6 years ago
    god should have made girls lethal
    when he made monsters of men.
  • b8335609878has quoted2 years ago
    The stairs move away from me, and I rush to catch them
  • b8335609878has quoted2 years ago
    I pressed on my brake once, twice, and the dark road behind me flooded red. The light revealed a herd of deer moving liquidly over the pavement, eyes glinting with each tap.

    did she kill her wife...

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