A review by haircurtains
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

“I have no shame. I have felt many things in my life, but shame is not among them….i have never had less of an obligation to anyone in my life, you aggressively ordinary woman.”

“You never live with a woman, you live inside her”

“The she picked up my water and drank deeply of it, until the water had filtered through the ice and the ice was nothing but a fragile lattice and then the whole construction slid against her face as she tipped the glass higher and she chewed the slivers that landed in her mouth.”