Her Body and Other Parties

Posted on 27 January 2017 by Carmen Maria Machado

InHer 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.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.Earthy and otherworldly, antic and sexy, queer and caustic, comic and deadly serious, Her Body and Other Parties swings from horrific violence to the most exquisite sentiment In their explosive originality, these stories enlarge the possibilities of contemporary fiction. New Download Her Body and Other Parties [ By ] Carmen Maria Machado [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr This is a difficult review to write because I have a lot of mixed feelings.Her Body and Other Parties is like most short story collections I have read in that some of the stories worked for me farthan others It is a strange, experimental, feminist collection that often crosses into fantasy, dystopia and or magical realism Some of the stories stepped out of the...The stories in Carmen Maria Machado s Her Body and Other Parties vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange Her voracious imagination and extraordinary voice beautifully bind these stories about fading women...I d rate this 4.5 stars.If you think of works of fiction like works of art, Carmen Maria Machado s debut story collection, Her Body and Other Parties , is an abstract painting It s undoubtedly gorgeous and attention getting, there s no one right way to interpret the things you see or read , everyone will see something different in it, and each time you look, you ll catch something you didn t see the first time You may also find yourself wondering, What did that mean Seven of the eight stor I d rate this 4.5 stars.If you think of works of fiction like works of art, Carmen Maria Machado s debut story collection, Her Body and Other Parties , is an abstract painting It s undoubtedly gorgeous and attention getting, there s no one right way to interpret the things you see or read , everyone will see something different in it, and each time you look, you ll catch something you didn t see the first time You may also find yourself wondering,...This collection of short stories heavily emphasizes the violence that we put on women s bodies Whether it be sexual violence, physical violence, violence put on us by society, or violence we put on ourselves This entire collection is absolutely haunting in the best way possible I won t forget this collection, ever And these are all so queer, and so feminist, and invoked so many emotions from me Carmen Maria Machado is beyond words talented, and I feel so very blessed to even have been able This collection of short stories heavily emphasizes the violence that we put on women s bodies Whether it be sexual violence, physical violence, violence put on us by society, or violence we put on ourselves This entire collection is absolutely haunting in the best way possible I won t forget this collection, ever And these are all so queer, and so feminist, and invoked so many emotions from me Carmen Maria Machado is beyond words talented, and I feel so very blessed to even have been able to read this I m going to break down each short story with my thoughts, opinions, and individual star rating THE HUSBAND STITCH This is my second time reading this, and it is just as powerful and hard hitting as it was the first time around You can read this for free from Granta , and I implore each and every one of you who is reading this review to do yourself a favor and read this short story This stor...It s 3am I really need to fall back to sleep but I couldn t stop reading these stories so before I drift off..I ll just say a few thingsITS NOT FOR THE TIMID.I had read two of the stories yesterday and couldn t stop talking to Paul about them on our hike yesterday I was trying to figure them out They are easy to read but requires our interpretation I just now finished the rest some were even harder to wrap my head around These are literary kinda brilliant short stories wh It s 3am I really need to fall back to sleep but I couldn t stop reading these stories so before I drift off..I ll just say a few thingsITS NOT FOR THE TIMID.I had read two of the stories yesterday and couldn t stop talking to Paul about them on our hike yesterday I was trying to figure them out They are easy to read but requires ...2.5 starsCarmen Maria Machado s Her Body and Other Parties is a collection I was so excited to read I dragged a friend in to read it with me We handed off back and forth who got to pick the next story, never going in order, and found ourselves surprisingly disappointed by each one In all honesty, I was drawn to what Machado was trying to do here, to what she was trying to say But, she didn t say it with enough force Some of her stories, such as Real Women Have Bodies and Eight Bites seem 2.5 starsCarmen Maria Machado s Her Body and Other Parties is a collection I was so excited to read I dragged a friend in to read it with me We handed off back and forth who got to pick the next story, never going in order, and found ourselves surprisingly disappointed by each one In all honesty, I was drawn to what Machado was trying to do here, to what she was trying to say But, she didn t say it with enough force Some of her stories, such as Real Women Have Bodies and Eight Bites seemed to not amount to muchthan a harsh whisper, if that, never fully realizing themselves I wantedMORE from a voice that dared to tackle such bold topics as the female experience and psyche And byI don t mean argumentative or domineering in tone some of my favorite short ...I ordered this for my library but grew impatient and listened to it on Hoopla instead It is one of the finalists for the 2017 National Book Award USA This is a book of short stories, all centering around the female body, as evidenced by the title This would not be a book for anyone who shocks easily, as there is sex, a lot of sex, some of it queer sex, and some of it deals with the aftermath of sexual assault Some of the themes are disturbing, and the insertion at times of supernatural or f I ordered this for my library but grew impatient and listened to it on Hoopla instead It is one of the finalists for the 2017 National Book Award USA This is a book of short stories, all centering around the female...I was really looking forward to this book, ever since I saw a review by Roxane Gay for this then when I read and loved one of these short stories earlier this year I was evenexcited and I was not disappointed in the least I absolutely adored these stories and what Carmen Maria Machado has to offer She writes just the kind of slightly unsettling and very upsetting short stories that I just adore Her stories are twisted and mean but also beautiful beyond words They have a core feminis I was really looking fo...A crazy sometimes conflicting collection of fabulist tales When this collection works, on tales of women with ribbons on their bodies, sexual encounters during a world ending epidemic, women literally vanishing in their skin and people who can hear the inner thoughts of adult film stars when they are watching porn, it is amazing But occasionally like with a twist on an America hit series and all it s nine seasons of episodes or a tale of mothers that gets too other, it lost me a touch That sa A crazy sometimes conflicting collection of fabu... Her Body and Other Parties is the debut book by Carmen Maria Machado, whose movie reviews I was familiar with in the Los Angeles Times Published in 2017, I bit on this short story collection with the publisher s promise of fiction that borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, f...

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27 January 2017

Carmen Maria Machado