Publication

2017-10-03 - Graywolf Press

Language

English

Word Count

62,000 words, Guess

Page Count

248 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 6 more
  • Internet Archiveherbodyotherpart0000mach_h8a1
  • Library of Congress Control Number2017930115
  • WikidataQ75955959
  • Amazon155597788X
  • The StoryGraph17646859-a40d-406e-bb2e-57e81ba0e6ec
  • Goodreads33375622

Classifications

  • DDC813.6
  • LCCPS3613.A2725243A6

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.

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