![]() ![]() ![]() In Machado's debut story collection, Her Body and Other Parties (Graywolf Press), relationships among and within bodies are as complicated as we've ever felt them to be. The worlds of her seductive stories, whether post-pandemic or ostensibly made-for-entertainment, reveal the uncanny of our own, and then some. Borrowing from the tropes of speculative fiction, Machado takes on even the most rigid, seemingly closed forms (like estate sale inventories or TV capsule descriptions), and inhabits them as though they were living systems, subverting them to her own ends. The first story I read by Carmen Maria Machado was " Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law & Order SVU." The novella's inventive structure and indelible images-the unforgettable doppelgängers, the ghostly presences of girls-with-bells-for-eyes-were an apt introduction to the writer's powers. ![]()
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