Her Body and Other Parties
by Carmen Maria Machado
"Stories that slide between horror, fairy tale and desire — and refuse to behave."
A wife whose green ribbon must never be untied. Every episode of Law & Order: SVU, rewritten as a haunting. A plague that thins the world while a woman catalogues her lovers. Machado's genre-defying collection turns women's bodies — desired, dismissed, discarded — into the most charged territory in contemporary fiction.
Worth knowing
National Book Award finalist and Lambda Literary Award winner — one of the most celebrated debuts of its decade.
