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Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
4.0

A collection of eight dark, mysterious stories in the vein of Kelly Link and Helen Oyeyemi. I had expected this book to be a harder read, but I ended up going through it in about a week, happily devouring one story after another. "Inventory", a catalogue of lovers at the end of the world, and "Mothers", about a dysfunctional lesbian relationship probably hit me the hardest, but I appreciated the strands of queer pleasure and spookiness woven throughout. Many stories include themes of sexual assault or other more unexplainable traumas of having a feminine body, but they were never overly graphic.