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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Carmen Maria Machado's haunted feminine

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Introduction

Our body and other parties is a collection of short stories by Carmen Mariam Machado. The stories live in this fuzzy space between literary fiction and fairy tales. In one story, a woman can't get her otherwise devoted husband to stop succeeding on the ribbon around her neck. Constance Grady: Why are bodies so horrifying?

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