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Fan Fiction: The longest story in the book is effectively a long piece of fanfiction for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: It goes episode-by-episode, providing an alternative subnarrative corresponding with each episode's title, taking some decidedly uncanny turns.

Cast Full of Gay: There's at least one lesbian or bisexual female character in each story.For example, like the myth it’s based on, “The Husband Stitch” ends with the main character’s head falling off, which she’s conscious for. "Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law & Order: SVU".The book won the Shirley Jackson Award and was nominated for the National Book Award, among others. It consists of eight stories-connected by themes of violence, attraction, and the female body-which straddle the lines between realist Lit Fic, Psychological Horror, and Supernatural Fiction. Her Body and Other Parties is the debut collection of short stories by Carmen Maria Machado, published in 2017 by Graywolf Press.

Elisabeth Hewer, the book's second epigraph