Her Body and Other Parties (2017)

A folk-tale retelling, a sexual inventory and an extended transformation of television episode summaries ask different forms to carry related anxieties about women's bodies. Machado's collection feels coherent because each new method changes the angle of pressure. Choose it if formal variation is part of your pleasure in a book. Queer desire, explicit sex, bodily violation and horror remain central, even when a piece is wickedly funny.