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In Her Body and Other Get-togethers, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary edges between mental health realism and research fiction, humor and horror, dream and fabulism. While her work has gained her evaluations to Karen Russell and Kelly Website link, she has a speech that is all her own. In such a electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to condition 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 eliminate the renewable ribbon from around her neck of the guitar. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague gradually 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 within an unwanted houseguest. And in the bravura novella Especially Heinous, Machado reimagines every episode of Law & Order: Special Patients Unit, a show we naïvely assumed experienced shown it all, creating a phantasmagoric law enforcement procedural packed with doppelgängers, spirits, and girls with bells for sight.
