Her Body and Other Parties
Stories
Her Body and Other Parties is a 2017 sapphic fiction and queer fantasy story collection by Carmen Maria Machado. Readers will find themes of Women, Feminism, identity and man-woman relationships.
Open Library readers give it an average of 3.6 out of 5 from 17 ratings, and 171 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 10 editions.
It runs to roughly 248 pages — 4–5 hours of reading at an average pace.
About Her Body and Other Parties
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.
Awards & lists
- 🏆Lambda Literary Awards 2018 — Lesbian Fiction (winner)
- 🏆Lambda Literary Awards 2018 — Overall (winner)
- ✦World Fantasy Awards 2018 — Best Collection (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2018 — Best Collection (nominee)
- 🏆Shirley Jackson Awards 2017 — Single-Author Collection (winner)
Quick answers
Who wrote Her Body and Other Parties?
Her Body and Other Parties was written by Carmen Maria Machado and first published in 2017.
What genre is Her Body and Other Parties?
It is usually shelved as Lesbian & Sapphic Fiction, Queer Fantasy, Queer Science Fiction and Horror.
How long is Her Body and Other Parties?
The median edition has 248 pages, about 4–5 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.
What books are similar to Her Body and Other Parties?
Readers who like it often enjoy The Gilda Stories, Nona the Ninth and The Book Eaters.
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