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Over Booked Book Club - Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado (20s & 30s)

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Your 20s & 30s are perfect for starting new activities and trying new books! Join us at the 20s & 30s book club and find something new to read!

Short stories have a place of their own in fiction, but are so often overlooked. This month selection, Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado, is a collection of short stories that mix together many different themes into one crazy collection!

"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 the bravura novella Especially Heinous, Machado reimagines every episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a show we naively assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgangers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes."

UNABLE TO ATTEND THIS EVENT? OUR NEXT MEETINGS ARE:

Thursday, July 31 • 7–8 p.m. The Summer Hikaru Died by Mokumokuren

Thursday, Aug. 28 • 7–8 p.m. Swann's Way by Marcel Proust & Selection Meeting

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