Her Body and Other Parties vs Through the Kitchen Window: Which Should You Read?

Her Body and Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado · 2017 ★★★★☆ 3.9 264 pages · ≈ 4 h 53 m · Moderate

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…

Through the Kitchen Window Arlene Voski Avakian · 1997 ★★★★☆ 4.1 320 pages · ≈ 5 h 56 m · Moderate

With recipes from many, and contributions by Dorothy Allison, Maya Angelou, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, and Marge Piercy, among others, Through the Kitchen Window offers a fresh and delicious look at food and cooking as more…