Her Body and Other Parties
Book - 2017 Science Fiction / Machado, Carmen, Adult Book / Fiction / Science Fiction / General / Machado, Carmen Maria 3 On Shelf 2 requests on 8 copies

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Call Number: Science Fiction / Machado, Carmen, Adult Book / Fiction / Science Fiction / General / Machado, Carmen Maria
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Traverwood Branch
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Difficult at parties.
Contains short stories about the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.
Contents: Husband stitch. -- Inventory. -- Mothers. -- Especially henious. -- Real women have bodies. -- Eight bites. -- Resident. -- Difficult at parties.
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Magical Realism at its finest submitted by nemiller on August 30, 2019, 12:57pm Machado uses Magical Realism to create eight explorations of the ways in which, as women, our bodies never fully belong to us. Any of these stories would make a great focus for a book group discussion.

PUBLISHED
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2017]
Year Published: 2017
Description: 245 pages ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
155597788X
9781555977887
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Machado, Carmen Maria.
SUBJECTS
Women -- Fiction.
Women -- Identity -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Science fiction.
Short stories.