![]() ![]() ![]() This is bodily fiction, written for and within a culture that’s rediscovering the body: through today’s feminism, with its new frankness about women’s bodies (as when legions of women called Mike Pence to tell him about their periods) and through the broader cultural shift toward valuing the experience of the body in the moment.Ĭarmen Maria Machado reads at Skylight Books on Oct. The collection is that hallowed thing: an example of almost preposterous talent that also encapsulates something vital but previously diffuse about the moment - no doubt why Machado has been longlisted for the National Book Award and named a finalist for the $50,000 Kirkus Prize for her debut. Their every experience is expressed through the body, in ways both natural and supernatural but always, on the deepest level, true. ![]() In Carmen Maria Machado’s debut short story collection, “Her Body and Other Parties,” women evaporate, are haunted after gastric surgery, literally lose their heads and chart an apocalyptic pandemic through their sexual encounters. Something is happening to women’s bodies. ![]()
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