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

5.0

this is a book to have a tempestuous love affair with, a book to touch and realise its cover is warmer than your own skin. the gorgeous surrealism of each story makes you feel as though you are somehow out of time whilst reading them, and then you will come across a passage that so concretely encompasses the experience of living and loving and inhabiting a body that you feel like your heart has been buried in warm damp earth for too long, and suddenly it has been pulled into the harsh cold air. its books like this that remind me why I write.