The narrator in "The Husband Stitch" is an inversion: she's an extremely sexual person, but only has one lover her entire life, whom she eventually marries (she considers a fling with another woman, but never goes through with it)."Inventory" is a list of the narrator's many lovers (of both sexes), with her explaining the effect each one had on her life.Most Writers Are Writers: "The Resident" is from the perspective of a troubled artist trying to finish a Roman à Clef.Homosexual Reproduction: In "Mothers," a woman and her female partner inexplicably conceive a child.There are supernatural elements and even dystopian ones, but the book is grounded in the realistic lived experience of its protagonists. Genre-Busting: Attempts to classify the book's stories proved difficulty, drawing comparisons to "uncanny realism" and the work of Kelly Link.Fractured Fairy Tale: "The Husband Stitch" is an expanded, modernized retelling of the Green Ribbon myth in a world where every woman has a "ribbon" on some part of her body.Fan Fiction: The longest story in the book is effectively a long piece of fanfiction for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: It goes episode-by-episode, providing an alternative subnarrative corresponding with each episode's title, taking some decidedly uncanny turns.Cast Full of Gay: There's at least one lesbian or bisexual female character in each story.For example, like the myth it’s based on, “The Husband Stitch” ends with the main character’s head falling off, which she’s conscious for. "Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law & Order: SVU".The book won the Shirley Jackson Award and was nominated for the National Book Award, among others. It consists of eight stories-connected by themes of violence, attraction, and the female body-which straddle the lines between realist Lit Fic, Psychological Horror, and Supernatural Fiction. Her Body and Other Parties is the debut collection of short stories by Carmen Maria Machado, published in 2017 by Graywolf Press. Elisabeth Hewer, the book's second epigraph
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