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Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado Book Review


Carmen Maria Machado's 'Her Body and Other Parties'

It reads as a condemnation of the justice system and the sycophantic entertainment industry that glorifies it, but it's also a thrilling, unforgiving, ...

Review: Her Body and Other Parties - literaryelephant

1) The synopsis of the book describes it as a collection of “startling narratives that map the realities of women's lives and the violence ...

Speculative Feminism: On Carmen Maria Machado's 'Her Body and ...

What I admire most about Machado's writing is that it is undeniably political. The stories within the collection are all widely different in ...

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado

This is a story about a woman who has struggled her entire life and has finally decided to get bariatric surgery. This story also heavily talks ...

Her Body and Other Parties, by Carmen Maria Machado : r/horrorlit

I really wanted to like this book. Queer, feminist horror by a Latina author is something that sounds right up my alley.

Why you should read - 'Her Body and Other Parties'

Carmen Maria Machado's debut short story collection takes the folk tales of childhood and paints them in millennial punk rock bisexual acid tones for our ...

Writing on- Review: Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen ...

This book is bold and honest, exploring feminist and queer themes. It can sometimes be difficult to read, but it's also powerful and important.

Her Body & Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado review

It's also the title of the standout story in Carmen Maria Machado's debut collection, a finalist in last year's US National Book awards: a tense ...

'Her Body And Other Parties:' Be Your Own Madwoman - NPR

Her Body and Other Parties — just announced as a finalist for the National Book Award — is an abrupt, original, and wild collection of stories, ...

Book Review: Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado

Machado's collection of visceral, queer, seductive and disturbing stories is a on a par with her. The best, by far, is the opening story: The Husband Stitch.

Review: “Her Body and Other Parties” by Carmen Maria Machado

It is one of the strangest, wildest books I've read in some time, and I say that as a ringing endorsement. Not every story in Her Body is a “ ...

Review: Her Body & Other Parties - Amina's Bookshelf

3 (out of 5) stars! THE PLOT: Her Body & Other Parties is a compilation of short stories by Carmen Maria Machado.

Book Review: Her Body and Other Parties (Paperback) by Carmen ...

It is definitely one of those books that forces you to look inside, think, and understand. I liked how it explores the various ways that women ...

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado Book Review

Her Body and Other Parties, a debut collection by Carmen Maria Machado, blends, just as What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky and Awayland, fantasy and ...

Her Body And Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado

Now, it's truly phenomenal that a book of short stories from a debut author received enough attention to earn her an invite to speak at a ...

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

Part of what excites me about reading a debut author's book is the originality of voice I might discover. The short fiction in “Her Body and ...

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado – Book ...

A unique and inventive collection of strange, unsettling, genre-defying short stories, where horror, science fiction and fairytales blend ...

Her Body and Other Parties, by Carmen Maria Machado - Wildness

The narrative is more or less: officer Benson and officer Stabler investigate murders, most often of women. Most often of prostitutes. The ghosts of these women ...

Book Review | Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

The queerness present in Machado's stories breathes life back into the sometimes unbearably violent collection. For all the horrible and ...

Fairy Tales About the Fears Within - The New York Times

“Her Body and Other Parties,” by Carmen Maria Machado, is a love letter to an obstinate genre that won't be gentrified. It's a wild thing ...