{"product_id":"her-body-and-other-parties-stories-paperback-1","title":"Her Body and Other Parties: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarmen Maria Machado\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the National Book Award for Fiction \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\" These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange.\"--Roxane Gay\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to women's memories and hunger and desire. I couldn't put it down.\"--Karen Russell\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e Her Body and Other Parties\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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 \u003ci\u003eLaw \u0026amp; Order: Special Victims Unit\u003c\/i\u003e, a show we naively assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgangers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEarthy and otherworldly, antic and sexy, queer and caustic, comic and deadly serious, \u003ci\u003eHer Body and Other Parties \u003c\/i\u003eswings from horrific violence to the most exquisite sentiment. In their explosive originality, these stories enlarge the possibilities of contemporary fiction.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarmen Maria Machado\u003c\/b\u003e's work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, NPR, \u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She has been nominated for a Nebula Award and a Shirley Jackson Award, and was a finalist for the Calvino Prize. She lives in Philadelphia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 03, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e National Book Awards (2017)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Kirkus Prize (2017)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47427201761458,"sku":"9781555977887","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/9411c6376b7589929c8afe7caa6308c5.webp?v=1778521573","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/her-body-and-other-parties-stories-paperback-1","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}