Her Body and Other Parties
About this book
In this electric and provocative debut, Carmen Maria 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 naively assumeded had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgangers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes.
Reader Profile
4.0/5 · 231 readers · 264 pages · ≈ 4 h 53 m · Moderate
How long does it take to read Her Body and Other Parties?
About ≈ 4 h 53 m — 264 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is Her Body and Other Parties?
264 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is Her Body and Other Parties?
It sits on the Short Stories, Horror, Science Fiction shelves.
Is Her Body and Other Parties in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who wrote Her Body and Other Parties?
Carmen Maria Machado (1986–0).