![]() Machado’s eight-story collection voices the need for us all to reckon with the question: will we ever believe women? ![]() Through Germain’s knives, through windows of perception, we travel deep into the abhorrent realities so many have chosen not to see or to believe. A finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Shirley Jackson Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Writing (among several others), this book unearths burdens, recounting immense pain through unforgiving lust and a delicate tension exploring the violence perpetrated against women and marginalized peoples. There are no doors but there are knives / and a hundred windows”-captures the brilliance that is Guggenheim Fellow Carmen Maria Machado’s debut short-story collection Her Body and Other Parties. Jacqui Germain’s succint metaphor-“My body is a haunted / house that I am lost in. ![]()
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