Her Body & Other Parties

A prize-winnging, genre-bending collection of short stories that has already achieved cult status, Her Body and Other Parties is unique, unsettling and totally original. Carmen Maria Machado demolishes the borders betwen magical realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. Bodies become inconsequential, humans become monstrous, and anger becomes erotic. A dark, shimmering slice into womanhood, Her Body and Other Parties is wicked and exquisite.

"Vibrates with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange. Her voracious imagination and extraordinary voice beautifully bind these stories." - Roxane Gay

"A writer of rare daring ... there's a ragged glory to the stories' formal experimentation and erotic fearlessness, and the gusto with which they reinvent horror, SF and fairy-tale tropes." - Guardian

"A love letter to an obstinate genre that won't be gentrified. It's a wild thing, this book, covered in sequens and scales, blazing." - The New York Times

Format: Paperback, 256 pages
ISBN: 9781781259535
Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 3 January, 2019
Weight: 208 g
Dimensions: 196x132x17 mm

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