A highly anticipated debut by "one of the most ferociously gifted young writers
working today" (Michelle Huneven)
In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the
arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and
horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen
Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric
and provocative debut, 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