![]() One woman’s surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted houseguest. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery within the seams of the store’s prom dresses. ![]() Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Guernica, Electric Literature, Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, Best Horror of the Year, and Year's Best Weird Fiction, and on NPR. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. Carmen Maria Machado's debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2017. 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.Ī wife refuses her husband’s entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. “In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to women’s memories and hunger and desire. ![]() “ vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange.”-Roxane Gay Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction ![]()
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