Bread lines
It is the hoarse voice coming from the poor neighborhoods filled with photographers and devoid of everything, the intermittent voice in forgotten hearts, and the smile absent from the features of good people, the bread lines, it is the voice of the woman who did not want to be what they wanted, the voice of the forgotten mother and the voice of the child.....in between. Its pages wrote (from life) everything that the world engraved on my wrist.
There are no names for the women in this book. Rather, they are just bodies. It is through the body that society recognizes them, and through it they also identify themselves. This often alienated body is the same body that deserves to be celebrated and celebrated.
By masterfully combining, with innovative writing techniques, the real and the imagined, and carelessly collapsing the boundaries between psychological realism, science fiction, comedy, horror, fantasy, and magical realism, Carmen María Machado pours out in Her Body and Other Parties her vision of the contradictory world of real women. : The beautiful, the funny, the strange, the dark, and the terrifying, alike. This contradiction is etched in their experiences and daily lives, between push and pull, independence and helplessness, to ultimately reveal the surreal meaning of being a “woman.”
