Title: Her Body and Other Parties
Subtitle: Stories
Description: In this electric and provocative debut, Carmen Maria 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 naively assumeded had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgangers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes.
Subjects: Women, Fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author), Horror fiction, Short stories, Feminism, LGBTQ short stories, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner, Identity, Man-woman relationships, Sexual minorities, Science Fiction, General, Short Stories (single author), Libido, Lesbian characters, Horror, Fantasy, Queer, LGBT, Magical Realism, Contemporary, Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction Finalist, collection:edmund_white_award=finalist, collection:otherwise_tiptree_award=honor