| Description |
245 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
The husband stitch -- Inventory -- Mothers -- Especially heinous -- Real women have bodies -- Eight bites -- The resident -- Difficult at parties |
| Summary |
Presents a collection of short stories about the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies. A wife refuses her husband's entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery within the seams of the store's prom dresses. One woman's surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted houseguest. And in 'Especially Heinous', Machado reimagines every episode of Law & Order : Special Victims Unit, a show we naïvely assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgängers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes. -- Adapted from publisher description |
| Notes |
National Book Award Finalist, 2017 |
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Lambda Literary Award, Lesbian Fiction, 2018 |
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National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize : Best First Book in Any Genre, 2017 |
| Subject |
Women -- Fiction
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Women -- Identity -- Fiction
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Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
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Sexual minorities -- Fiction
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Libido -- Fiction
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Women
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| Genre/Form |
Science fiction
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Fictional Work
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short stories.
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Domestic fiction
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Fiction
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Psychological fiction
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Science fiction
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Short stories
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Science fiction.
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Short stories.
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LGBTQ+ fiction.
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Short stories.
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Psychological fiction.
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Domestic fiction.
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Fiction.
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Nouvelles.
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Romans.
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| Author |
Container of (work): Machado, Carmen Maria.
Husband stitch
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Container of (work): Machado, Carmen Maria.
Inventory
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Container of (work): Machado, Carmen Maria.
Mothers
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Container of (work): Machado, Carmen Maria.
Especially heinous
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Container of (work): Machado, Carmen Maria.
Real women have bodies
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Container of (work): Machado, Carmen Maria.
Eight bites
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Container of (work): Machado, Carmen Maria.
Resident
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Container of (work): Machado, Carmen Maria.
Difficult at parties
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| LC no. |
2017930115 |
| ISBN |
9781555977887 (paperback) |
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155597788X (paperback) |
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