Her Body and Other Parties

Carmen Maria Machado 2017

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
horror trauma literary fiction loss

Our Take

Machado writes women's bodies as horror sites and the horror is never supernatural — it is intimate, relational, social. The Green Ribbon story alone is worth the whole collection. These are fairy tales for the body that has been afraid of itself. They will not cure that fear. They will name it.

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