Episode 24: Her Body and Other Parties Part 3

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We are ending our time with the powerful short story collection Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado with a discussion on two final stories: "Mothers" and "Difficult at Parties". These two stories deal with the struggle to put things back together after they fall apart, looking at the pain of mourning an abusive relationship in the first and the challenges of intimacy after an assault in the later. After discussing them both we will talk about the collection as a whole, what we liked and what we didn't, before finally answering the question everyone is asking; where does this book fall in the Satire Fire Official Rankings?? Tune in to find out!

Other works discussed this episode:

Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean

Normal People by Sally Rooney

In the Dream House by ...