Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado (Paperback) Harper Collins Gods of Jade and Shadow

Gods of Jade and Shadow is a magical fairy tale about identity

she left behind a father who was no longer willing to start over

Weaving together the stories of three extraordinary women across five centuries

the punitive dream of optimization

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado (Paperback) Harper Collins Gods of Jade and ShadowFinalist for the National Book Award for Fiction [These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange.Roxane Gay In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to womens memories and hunger and desire. I couldnt put it down.Karen Russell In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction,