A highly anticipated debut by one of the most ferociously gifted young writers working today (Michelle Huneven). “[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 women’s memories and hunger and desire. I couldn’t put it down.”-Karen RussellIn Her Body and Other Parties,Carmen Maria Machadoblithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons toKaren RussellandKelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women’s lives and the violence visited upon their bodies."Her Body and Other Parties — just announced as a finalist for the National Book Award — is an abrupt, original, and 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 and scales.”-Parul Sehgal, The New York TimesEarthy and otherworldly, antic and sexy, queer and caustic, comic and 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.Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction; Finalist for the 2017 Kirkus Prize For Fiction