Her Body And Other Parties

A collection of short stories shortlisted both for the 2017 National Book Award and the 2018 International Dylan Thomas Prize. According to "The Pool" 'this is about the alienation of being a woman in a way you've never read before'.

Carmen Maria Machado is the author of Her Body and Other Parties, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and In the Dream House, which was the winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is the Abrams Artist-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Philadelphia with her wife.