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Author Machado, Carmen Maria, author

Title Her body and other parties : stories / Carmen Maria Machado

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LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
 Bangor Pub. Lib. Stacks  813.6 .M181h    AVAILABLE  
 Farmington Stacks  PS3613.A2725243 H47 2017    AVAILABLE  
 UMM Stacks  PS3613.A2725243 A6 2017    DUE 05-14-24  
Phys Descr 245 pages ; 21 cm
Contents The husband stitch -- Inventory -- Mothers -- Especially heinous -- Real women have bodies -- Eight bites -- The resident -- Difficult at parties
Summary Contains short stories about the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies
Presents a collection of short stories about 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 'Especially Heinous, ' Machado reimagines every episode of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, a show we naïvely assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgängers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes. --Adapted from publisher description
Note National Book Award Finalist, 2017
Lambda Literary Award, Lesbian Fiction, 2018
Subject Women -- Fiction
Women -- Identity -- Fiction
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Sexual minorities -- Fiction
Libido -- Fiction
Alt Author Container of (work): Machado, Carmen Maria. Husband stitch
Container of (work): Machado, Carmen Maria. Inventory
Container of (work): Machado, Carmen Maria. Mothers
Container of (work): Machado, Carmen Maria. Especially heinous
Container of (work): Machado, Carmen Maria. Real women have bodies
Container of (work): Machado, Carmen Maria. Eight bites
Container of (work): Machado, Carmen Maria. Resident
Container of (work): Machado, Carmen Maria. Difficult at parties
Alt Title Short stories. Selections
Husband stitch
Inventory
Mothers
Especially heinous
Real women have bodies
Eight bites
Resident
Difficult at parties
Other Form Online version: Machado, Carmen Maria. Short stories. Selections. Her body and other parties (OCoLC)1123220644
OCLC # 965738096
ISBN # 9781555977887
155597788X
9781781259528
1781259526