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2017

Title:	Her body and other parties : stories / Carmen Maria Machado.
Author:	Machado, Carmen Maria, author.
Format:	Book
Publisher, Date:	Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2017.
Description:	245 pages ; 21 cm
Summary:	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. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. 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.
Subjects:	Women -- Fiction. Women -- Identity -- Fiction. Man-woman relationships -- Fiction. Feminism -- Fiction.
Genre:	Psychological fiction. Science fiction. Short stories.
Other Title:	Short stories. Selections
Contents:	The husband stitch -- Inventory -- Mothers -- Especially heinous -- Real women have bodies -- Eight bites -- The resident -- Difficult at parties.
ISBN:	9781555977887 (trade paperback)
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Carmen Maria Machado’s work has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, NPR, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She has been nominated for a Nebula Award and a Shirley Jackson Award, and was a finalist for the Calvino Prize. She lives in Philadelphia. - (McMillan Palgrave)

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