Finalist for the National Book Award for FictionFinalist for the 2017 Kirkus Prize For FictionA highly anticipated debut by one of the most ferociously gifted young writers working today (Michelle Huneven). “[These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality & the strange” (Roxane Gay).“In these formally brilliant & emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to women’s memories & hunger & desire. I couldn’t put it down.”-Karen RussellIn Her Body & Other Parties,Carmen Maria Machadoblithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism & science fiction, comedy & horror, fantasy & fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons toKaren Russell&Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric & provocative debut,Machadobends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women’s lives & the violence visited upon their bodies."Her Body & Other Parties— just announced as a finalist for the National Book Award — is an abrupt, original, & wild collection of stories, full of outlandish myths that somehow catch at familiar, unspoken truths about being women in the world that more straightforward or realist writing wouldn't." —Annalisa Quinn,NPR“A love letter to an obstinate genre that won’t be gentrified. It’s a wild thing, this book, covered in sequins & scales.”-Parul Sehgal,The New York TimesEarthy & otherworldly, antic & sexy, queer & caustic, comic & deadly serious,Her Body and Other Partiesswings from horrific violence to the most exquisite sentiment. In their explosive originality, these stories enlarge the possibilities of contemporary fiction.°°°Carmen Maria Machadois the bestselling author ofIn the Dream House. She is the winner of theShirley Jackson Award, theBard Fiction Prize, &Lambda Li