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last updated Jan 30, 2020 10:22AM
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This was such a smart, spooky, sexy, strange, and political collection of stories. I read through it quickly and every single story sparked a thousand questions and ideas in my head. Read this book with your favorite feminist af friend because you will want to talk about it, I’m certain.
These short stories resist definition and categorisation as much as they resist easy answers, endings and metaphors. Machado's writing dwells within the fringes of fantasy, magic realism and literary fiction, writing about women with mysterious ribbons around their necks, or bodies that disappear, or discard flesh that comes to life. The stories are unashamedly queer, strange and sexual, filled with female centred desire and creativity. Don't read if you like wholesome, resolutions, do read if
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Absolutely stunning stories about moving through the world in a woman's body. Painful, haunting, funny, wicked.
Beautifully written, but not my cup of tea.
Jan 29, 2020
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