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* BodyHorror: Lots. For example, [[spoiler: like the myth it’s based on, “The Husband Stitch” ends with the main character’s head falling off, [[AndIMustScream which she’s conscious for.]]]]
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* SurrealHorror: Ghosts with bells for eyes, a woman casually losing her head, evil doppelgangers...
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** The narrator in "The Husband Stitch" is an inversion: she's an extremely sexual person, but only has one lover her entire life, whom she eventually marries (he considers a fling with another woman, but never goes through with it).
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* CastFullOfGay: There's at least one lesbian or bisexual female character in each story.
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[[caption-width-right:350:The original cover.]]
->''"god should have made girls lethal\\
when he made monsters of men."''
-->-- '''Elisabeth Hewer''', the book's second {{epigraph}}
''Her Body and Other Parties'' is the debut collection of {{short stor|y}}ies by Carmen Maria Machado, published in 2017 by Graywolf Press.
It consists of eight stories--connected by themes of violence, attraction, and the female body--which straddle the lines between realist LitFic, PsychologicalHorror, and SupernaturalFiction.
The book won the Creator/ShirleyJackson Award and was nominated for the National Book Award, among others.
'''The stories:'''
# "The Husband Stitch"
# "Inventory"
# "Mothers"
# "Especially Heinous: 272 Views of ''Law & Order: SVU''"
# "Real Women Have Bodies"
# "Eight Bites"
# "The Resident"
# "Difficult at Parties"
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!!This book provides examples of:
* FanFiction: The longest story in the book is effectively a long piece of fanfiction for ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'': It goes episode-by-episode, providing an alternative subnarrative corresponding with each episode's title, taking some decidedly uncanny turns.
* FracturedFairyTale: "The Husband Stitch" is an expanded, modernized retelling of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_a_Dark,_Dark_Room_and_Other_Scary_Stories Green Ribbon myth]] in a world where every woman has a "ribbon" on some part of her body.
* GenreBusting: Attempts to classify the book's stories proved difficulty, drawing comparisons to "uncanny realism" and the work of Creator/KellyLink. There are supernatural elements and even {{dystopia}}n ones, but the book is grounded in the realistic lived experience of its protagonists.
* HomosexualReproduction: In "Mothers," a woman and her female partner inexplicably conceive a child. It's [[AmbiguousSituation probably]] a metaphor.
* MostWritersAreWriters: "The Resident" is from the perspective of a troubled artist trying to finish a RomanAClef.
* UnfinishedBusiness: In "Especially Heinous," Olivia Benson is haunted by the ghosts of all the girls whose murders her unit investigates, who want her to put things right by catching their killers.
* WomensMysteries: An undercurrent throughout the book, especially in "The Husband Stitch," where the protagonist's husband is obsessed with gaining access to [[ForbiddenFruit the one part of her she wants to reserve for herself]].
-->"Why do you want to hide it from me?"\\
"[[DeconstructedTrope I'm not hiding it. It just isn't yours]]."
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[[caption-width-right:350:The original cover.]]
->''"god should have made girls lethal\\
when he made monsters of men."''
-->-- '''Elisabeth Hewer''', the book's second {{epigraph}}
''Her Body and Other Parties'' is the debut collection of {{short stor|y}}ies by Carmen Maria Machado, published in 2017 by Graywolf Press.
It consists of eight stories--connected by themes of violence, attraction, and the female body--which straddle the lines between realist LitFic, PsychologicalHorror, and SupernaturalFiction.
The book won the Creator/ShirleyJackson Award and was nominated for the National Book Award, among others.
'''The stories:'''
# "The Husband Stitch"
# "Inventory"
# "Mothers"
# "Especially Heinous: 272 Views of ''Law & Order: SVU''"
# "Real Women Have Bodies"
# "Eight Bites"
# "The Resident"
# "Difficult at Parties"
----
!!This book provides examples of:
* FanFiction: The longest story in the book is effectively a long piece of fanfiction for ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'': It goes episode-by-episode, providing an alternative subnarrative corresponding with each episode's title, taking some decidedly uncanny turns.
* FracturedFairyTale: "The Husband Stitch" is an expanded, modernized retelling of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_a_Dark,_Dark_Room_and_Other_Scary_Stories Green Ribbon myth]] in a world where every woman has a "ribbon" on some part of her body.
* GenreBusting: Attempts to classify the book's stories proved difficulty, drawing comparisons to "uncanny realism" and the work of Creator/KellyLink. There are supernatural elements and even {{dystopia}}n ones, but the book is grounded in the realistic lived experience of its protagonists.
* HomosexualReproduction: In "Mothers," a woman and her female partner inexplicably conceive a child. It's [[AmbiguousSituation probably]] a metaphor.
* MostWritersAreWriters: "The Resident" is from the perspective of a troubled artist trying to finish a RomanAClef.
* UnfinishedBusiness: In "Especially Heinous," Olivia Benson is haunted by the ghosts of all the girls whose murders her unit investigates, who want her to put things right by catching their killers.
* WomensMysteries: An undercurrent throughout the book, especially in "The Husband Stitch," where the protagonist's husband is obsessed with gaining access to [[ForbiddenFruit the one part of her she wants to reserve for herself]].
-->"Why do you want to hide it from me?"\\
"[[DeconstructedTrope I'm not hiding it. It just isn't yours]]."
----
