#50 in Short stories
Her Body and Other Parties
- 280
- Pages
- about 5 h
- Reading time
- Lambda Literary Award
- The New Vanguard
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Our view
“Her Body and Other Parties” is a collection of dark feminist stories in which horror serves as a language for women’s lives and bodies. Its appeal lies in metaphor more than in fright, and for some readers that is the whole point, even if they find that a story midway through outstays its welcome. Anyone who likes the uncanny left open to interpretation is its natural audience.
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About the book
Her Body and Other Parties is a 2017 short story collection by Carmen Maria Machado, published by Graywolf Press. The collection won the Shirley Jackson Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction. The story "The Husband Stitch" was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novelette.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.5 across 355 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 71% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Short stories average of 7.8. That is how 7.5 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.2 | 17 | 5% |
| Hardcover | 7.6 | 338 | 95% |
Frequently asked
How long is Her Body and Other Parties?
It has 280 pages — shorter than 80% of the ranked books in Short stories.
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