A Book with a View: Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
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Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club! This month we read a short story collection called Her Body and other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado.
Her Body and Other Parties is a debut collection of shorty stories with a variety of stories dealing with the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies. A wife refuses her husband's entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery within the seams of the store's prom dresses. One woman's surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted houseguest. And in the bravura novella Especially Heinous, Machado reimagines every episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a show we naively assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgangers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes.
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