![]() ![]() Many of these stories take place in worlds much like ours, but their psychological realism is punctured by the fantastic, supernatural, and apocalyptic. “The Resident,” an eerie tale of a writer’s experience at a residency gone wrong, tackles the problem of the “ madwoman in the attic,” and how some tropes limit our ability to write about mental illness and women’s emotional lives. In “The Husband Stitch,” a folktale about a girl whose head is held on by a ribbon (famously collected in Alvin Schwartz’s In a Dark, Dark Room) becomes the basis for a story about misogyny, sexuality, and the values embedded in the stories we tell. The genre-bending stories collected in Her Body and Other Parties weave fables, urban legends, gothic literature, and popular culture to create moving narratives about female selfhood. ![]() These are only a few of the wonders contained in the pages of Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado’s electrifying debut. A phantasmagoric reimagining of one of television’s most popular shows. ![]() An inventory of lovers, written as the world falls apart. ‘Her Body and Other Parties’ by Carmen Maria MachadoĪ mysterious green ribbon around a woman’s neck. ![]()
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