Her body and other parties : stories / Carmen Maria Machado.
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 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 155597788X
- ISBN: 9781555977887
- Physical Description: 245 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Husband stitch -- Inventory -- Mothers -- Especially heinous -- Real women have bodies -- Eight bites -- Resident -- Difficult at parties.
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- Subject:
- Women > Fiction.
Women > Identity > Fiction.
Man-woman relationships > Fiction.
Women.
Womyn. - Genre:
- Psychological fiction.
Science fiction.
Short stories.
Available copies
- 25 of 29 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 3 of 4 copies available at Forsyth County Public Library.
Holds
- 1 current hold with 29 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carver School Road Branch | FIC Machado, Carmen (Text) | 0112522103442 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Clemmons Branch | FIC Machado, Carmen (Text) | 0112521645680 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Forsyth Central | FIC Machado, Carmen (Text) | 0112521645671 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 11/18/2025 |
| Reynolda Manor Branch | FIC Machado, Carmen (Text) | 0112523243879 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
