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Her Body and Other Parties
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- Narrated by: Amy Landon
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Anthologies & Short Stories
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Publisher's Summary
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 woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery within the seams of the store's prom dresses. One woman's surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted houseguest. And in the bravura novella Especially Heinous, Machado reimagines every episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a show we naïvely assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgängers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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Story2 out of 5 stars
- Jenna
- 2022-03-10
I couldn’t finish this book
I try to force myself to finish books that I don’t connect with but I gave up halfway through this one. It wasn’t what I expected. It’s just a jumbled series of short stories about women that are hyper sexual and sci-fi but also feminist? There’s also a short story/several chapters which are just the titles of Law and Order SVU episodes with an odd blurb or two about the characters of the show that are also sci-fi.
I see what the other was trying to do — or perhaps did but not in a way that I enjoyed. We definitely need more stories of women and their bodies, sexuality, desires, queerness etc. that aren’t making a big deal of themselves. However, this book feels like a huge steep to climb in order to make meaning of the stories offered.
This book is obviously for some and I’m glad. But it’s not for me and If you aren’t sure if you’ll like it, definitely read a sample (I found the first story/chapter 1 and 2 good and not as off putting as the rest). Good luck.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story4 out of 5 stars
- Kate G.
- 2020-11-13
Skip the one about SVU Otherwise it’s wonderful
Incredible and beautifully written, the 4th story sticks out like a sore thumb, I recommend skipping it. It’s almost unlistenable. Might be better to read but awful in audio.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Anonymous User
- 2017-11-17
Beautiful
Poignant and heartbreakingly accurate fiction. Good read if you're a woman and feel like nobody understands you... Machado reaches down into every cobwebbed corner of the female experience and closely examines what she finds.
12 people found this helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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- Nora
- 2018-04-06
Breaks needed
Needs longer/more concrete audio breaks between stories. Difficult to differentiate stories and no time to process after one has ended. Beautiful writing.
12 people found this helpful
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
- Scentart
- 2020-01-14
I guess I'm obtuse
I was confused by this book. I didn't understand any of the stories. I was amused by the Law and order SUV section tho
3 people found this helpful
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance1 out of 5 stars
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Story3 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 2018-05-08
It sounds like Siri is reading you a book
I had such high hopes for this book but unfortunately the terrible choice of robotic narrator was just too distracting to get me through the first chapter.
3 people found this helpful
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance2 out of 5 stars
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Story3 out of 5 stars
- Stevie Coleman
- 2019-04-21
... meh
I usually like short stories but this one has too much magical realism for my liking. The SVU portion in particular I found to be really confusing. I enjoyed a few of the other stories, I don’t want to give away spoilers so I’ll just leave it at that.
From a narration standpoint, the stories all run together. The new chapters are never signified so it can be really confusing. The woman’s voice was also a bit dry.
2 people found this helpful
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance1 out of 5 stars
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Story3 out of 5 stars
- Mister Pants
- 2018-01-10
No breaks between stories
Any additional comments?
Unfortunately, this audiobook is hampered by kind of a dumb and unnecessary flaw -- the reader doesn't provide any pause or other noticeable break between stories. She ends one story, then immediately reads the title of the next one and continues on, without any change in cadence. It's OK if you're able to pay complete attention to the book, but if you're driving or doing something else while listening, it's easy to miss the transition from one story to the next. I listen while driving, and was four stories in before I realized it!
8 people found this helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- Kmacgrady
- 2020-01-28
I sucked this book down in a 24 hour period.
The first story in this grabbed me and wouldn’t let go! These stories are stunning and there wasn’t one in this collection I wasn’t into. I immediately downloaded her other book on Audible.
1 person found this helpful
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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Story2 out of 5 stars
- PJE
- 2018-01-03
Character development is weak
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
I wouldn't recommend these stories. Although I'm impressed by their originality and by the boldness of exhibiting intense sexual drives so explicitly and tastefully, especially with her female characters, ultimately, for me, the characters and the stories are too thin. The degree to which Machado sees sexuality as a defining characteristic of men and women makes her characters feel one dimensional (to me). I wanted to see other sides of her characters as the situations and the fairy tale dimension of her storytelling is often intriguing. Machado writes well, but her obsession with erotica becomes boring/annoying.
What could Carmen Maria Machado have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
Deepen her characters/make them less one dimensional.
5 people found this helpful
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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Story1 out of 5 stars
- Larry&Delaney
- 2017-12-21
If you liked the movie "Mother"...
This book is like listening to slam poetry. The plots, if there are actual plots, have been shuffled and diced until all that is left is a fragmented mosaic of prose. Maybe that's the point. It makes no sense and feels like it's trying to hard to be abstract art. If you liked the movie "Mother", this book might be for you.
5 people found this helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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- Alednam A Uonopk
- 2022-03-29
Wow... talk about female sexuality...
Bravo... from start to finish... Bravo... and it's not all sex but good nonetheless..
