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'Brilliantly inventive and blazingly smart' Garth Greenwell.'Impossible, imperfect, unforgettable' Roxane Gay.'A wild thing...covered in sequins and scales, blazing with the influence of fabulists from Angela Carter to Kelly Link and Helen Oyeyemi' New York Times.In her provocative debut, Carmen Maria Machado demolishes the borders between magical realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism.A wife refuses her husband's entreaties to remove the mysterious green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague spreads across the earth. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery about a store's dresses. One woman's surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted house guest. A dark, shimmering slice into womanhood, Her Body and Other Parties is wicked and exquisite.
Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange.--Roxane Gay 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.--Kare
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In these kaleidoscopic stories of Jamaica and its diaspora we hear many voices at once. All of them convince and sing. All of them shine.--Zadie Smith An O: The Oprah Magazine Top 15 Best of the Year - A Well-Read Black Girl Pick Tenderness and cruelty, loyalty and betrayal, ambition and regret--Ale
A new edition of Kate Chopin's controversial masterpiece, an essential novel in the canon of early feminism--with an introduction by Carmen Maria Machado, award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties . Whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself. With its fort
