her body and other parties carmen maria machado

Machado ranks alongside Shirley Jackson and Margaret Atwood, and she brings all her (there should be a woman's word to replace 'mastery') formidable skills to bear in this tale of the rent fabric of women's lives. Parul Sehgal * New York Times *īrilliant and unsettling. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,' in 2006, has a debut collection of short stories from a relatively unknown author garnered such attention, or deserved it more. It's a wild thing, this book, covered in sequins and scales, blazing with the influence of fabulists from Angela Carter to Kelly Link and Helen Oyeyemi, and borrowing from science fiction, queer theory and horror. Her Body and Other Parties is a love letter to an obstinate genre that won't be gentrified. there's a ragged glory to formal experimentation and erotic fearlessness, and the gusto with which they reinvent horror, SF and fairytale tropes. Publisher: Profile Books Ltd ISBN: 9781781259535 Number of pages: 256 Weight: 213 g Dimensions: 194 x 128 x 22 mm Edition: Main MEDIA REVIEWSĭeliciously weird and dark and erotic and queer and smart and full of desire, and profoundly original, this is about the alienation of being a woman in a way you've never read before * The Pool *Ī writer of rare daring. One woman's surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted house guest.Ī dark, shimmering slice into womanhood, Her Body and Other Parties is wicked and exquisite. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery about a store's dresses. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague spreads across the earth. In her provocative debut, Carmen Maria Machado demolishes the borders between magical realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism.Ī wife refuses her husband's entreaties to remove the mysterious green ribbon from around her neck.

covered in sequins and scales, blazing with the influence of fabulists from Angela Carter to Kelly Link and Helen Oyeyemi' New York Times 'Impossible, imperfect, unforgettable' Roxane Gay

'Brilliantly inventive and blazingly smart' Garth Greenwell SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FICTION PRIZE 2017

Her body and other parties carmen maria machado