Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

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It is not normal that a girl teaches her boy, but I am only showing him what I want, what plays on the insides of my eyelids as I fall asleep.

It’s also the title of the standout story in Carmen Maria Machado’s debut collection, a finalist in last year’s US National Book awards: a tense, seductive fairytale about rumour and silence, sex and power, autonomy and being ignored. They drive and drive for a very long time, and when the girl arrives, she is frustrated by the unbearable slowness of this doctor’s wife, who meticulously assembles the pills from powder.Our corpus is circumscribed by Clarice Lispector’s short story The Body and its homonymous film version, by José Antônio Garcia. I also do not ask her if she’s married, and she does not volunteer the information, though she does not wear a ring. The murdered girls become ghosts with bells for eyes who haunt Olivia Benson’s apartment, and the repetitive dun-dun of the show’s theme becomes the breathing of a vast monster on whose sleeping back New York City rests.

Share your thoughts on Her Body and Other Parties in the comments section below, and be sure to RSVP for our upcoming live discussion event with Carmen Maria Machado.After a few paragraphs, we stumble back in time to January at Cape Cod before the surgery has been agreed to. My heart fluttered below my belly button, but I worried about daddy long legs and her parents finding us. This story deals with how the portrayal of women in media, especially police procedurals, and how TV sanitises and sells misogyny to the masses.