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2018 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee)
2018 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize (nominee)
2018 Shirley Jackson Award for Single-Author Collection
2018 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection (nominee)
2017 Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction (nominee)
2017 John Leonard Prize for Best First Book
2017 Kirkus Prize for Fiction (finalist)
2017 National Book Award for Fiction (shortlist)
2017 Otherwise Award (nominee)
In her provocative debut, Carmen Maria Machado demolishes the borders between magical realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism.
Startling narratives map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited on their bodies, both in myth and in practice. A wife refuses her husband's entreaties to remove the mysterious green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague spreads across the earth. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery about a store's dresses. One woman's surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted house guest. Bodies become inconsequential, humans become monstrous, anger becomes erotic.
A dark, shimmering slice into womanhood, Her Body and Other Parties is wicked and exquisite.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Startling narratives map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited on their bodies, both in myth and in practice. A wife refuses her husband's entreaties to remove the mysterious green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague spreads across the earth. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery about a store's dresses. One woman's surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted house guest. Bodies become inconsequential, humans become monstrous, anger becomes erotic.
A dark, shimmering slice into womanhood, Her Body and Other Parties is wicked and exquisite.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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