Her body and other aspects

"Her Body and Other Sides" is a collection of short prose by the American writer Carmen Maria Machado. A provocative and sophisticated debut that brilliantly blurs the lines between magical realism and fantasy, humorous prose and horror.

Machado's prose reveals special hidden aspects of femininity and female maturity. The heroine of the stories is puzzled by the experience of growing up, partner relations, motherhood... An "ideal" wife who gives her whole self to her husband, or a woman who dares to undergo surgical stomach reduction in order to finally like herself, or a debutant writer who goes to a creative residency, where he returns to the stories of his childhood... These are emotional and frank stories of women's experience, in the center of which are themes of sexuality, objectification, tyranny of beauty canons, misogyny, physical and psychological violence.