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Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

Carmen Maria Machado

Start date: February 8, 2020

Finish date: March 31, 2020

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Mar 25, 2018 Ashley rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fun, fiction-novels-plays-stories, women-s-studies

This was such a smart, spooky, sexy, strange, and political collection of stories. I read through it quickly and every single story sparked a thousand questions and ideas in my head. Read this book with your favorite feminist af friend because you will want to talk about it, I’m certain.

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Jan 17, 2018 Elizabeth rated it it was amazing

These short stories resist definition and categorisation as much as they resist easy answers, endings and metaphors. Machado's writing dwells within the fringes of fantasy, magic realism and literary fiction, writing about women with mysterious ribbons around their necks, or bodies that disappear, or discard flesh that comes to life. The stories are unashamedly queer, strange and sexual, filled with female centred desire and creativity. Don't read if you like wholesome, resolutions, do read if y ...more

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