Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
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."--Karen Russell
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A stunning collection of short stories, with the theme of womanhood and female bodies. From short and disarming to longer and weirder. I loved every one.
4 stars for The Husband Stitch, a story which shows exactly what it is like being a woman. The rest of the stories in this collection weren't as strong (especially the Law & Order SVU plot synopses, I couldn't finish that one), but most are delightful to read for Machado's unique writing style.
Overall, I thought this was a really good short story collection. Very sexual in nature, but the stories really touched on a lot of different themes such as body autonomy, the pressures that men put on women in society, love, fear, and even the unraveling of the mind. A couple of duds (Especially Heinous, and Difficult at Parties) but also really, really good stories (I really enjoyed The Husband Stitch, Eight Bites, Real Women Have Bodies, and...read more
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