
Her Body and Other Parties
Stories
By Carmen Maria Machado
Narrated by Amy Landon / 8 hours 41 minutes
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.
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 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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Gift NowAuthor | Carmen Maria Machado |
Narrator | Amy Landon |
ISBN | 9781681686899 |
Length | 8 hours 41 minutes |
Language | English |
Publisher | HighBridge |
Publication Date | October 3, 2017 |
Edition | Unabridged |
Libro.fm Rank | #440 Overall |
Genre Rank | #264 in Fiction & Literature |




