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territory with enormousstyle, wit, and storytelling panache.――John Powers, NPR “Fresh
Air―“Her Body and Other Parties is an astonishing debut, dark and glittering, like a night, or a
knife. The stories in this book unroll like millipedes, smooth shells of lyric giving way to sharp joints
and flailing, alien limbs.――Bookforum“Machadoâ€s stories . . . have reverberated among
readers with the prophetic force of a soothsayerâ€s divinations.――Vulture“Imaginative,
unsettling, haunting stories.――BuzzFeed“With supernatural flair, an engaging pop culture
awareness . . . and an intimate, unrelenting style that grabs you by the throat and sinks its
perfectly-polished nails in, Machado explores 'femaleness' in a way that makes women who
evaporate or telepathically hear the thoughts of porn stars feel eerily, impossibly, like long-lost
friends.――Harperâ€s Bazaar“In her twistedly original and thrilling debut short story
collection, Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blends both the terrifying and the
horrible into a psychologically realistic and darkly comic mixture. . . . Simultaneously hot and
chilling, these stories leave the reader enthralled and shaken.――Chicago Tribune“Thrilling
and page-turning, smart and fearless, and very likely the best book of the year.――Jezebel
“Machado brushes past taboo to treat womenâ€s sexuality with frankness and lyricism. . . .
These daring stories are deeply feminist, but never dogmatically so, slipping into the murky places
where we begin to fear our desires and desire what we fear.――Slate“Between its covers,
we find ourselves inside a gorgeously warped reflection of the world in which we actually live.
Itâ€s recognizable as our own, but everything is a little more lurid, a little more queer, a little
more violent, a little more