HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES

n Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and scien ce 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 womens lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.A wife refuses her husbands entreaties to remove the gree n ribbon fro...[Llegir més]