Her Body and Other Parties: Stories BTBA Best Translated Book Award Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2019) The future of mankind is

The future of mankind is at stake—and so is her life

Maxine Beneba Clarke gives voice to the disenfranchised

what happens when maths goes wrong in the real world

It leaves echoes to reverberate

is given its due

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories BTBA Best Translated Book Award Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2019) The future of mankind isIn Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited