Go Ask Alice Part 2 with Carmen Maria Machado
You're Wrong About
The Worms Are Eating Away My Female Parts
"I can't close my eyes because the worms are still crawling on me. They are eating me," she writes. "The maggots are crawling off my bleeding, writhing hands into your pages." The book is about a woman who has had her female parts eaten away by 'worms' It also deals with issues of sexuality and body image.
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