Real Women Have Bodies by Carmen Maria Machado

    Real Women Have Bodies by Carmen Maria Machado

“You can’t put clothes on air. Not that they haven’t tried.” From her dark, sharp debut Her Body & Other Parties, this disquieting story imagines a world in which women are quite literally vanishing away –

 slowly becoming an eerie assessment of women and power. Revolving around Glam, a dress shop where the intricately made garments hang like “stringless marionettes,” Machado weaves a glittering, devastating fable about sex, physicality, queer relationships, actual and metaphorical invisibility, and the terrifying things that might be stitched into fabric.