6 Books to Read This Fall From Authors of Color

Carmen Maria Machado blends emotion, beauty, and creepy storytelling in Her Body and Other Parties. She plays with "psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror" and bends genre to create stories that "map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies." From a woman recounting her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity to a woman's surgery-induced weight loss resulting in an unwanted house guest, Carmen touches upon queerness, femininity, and the complexities of being a woman.

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