Gurba’s book also straddles a similar line with its ancient, timeless feel of fairy tales combined with a 21st century queer and feminist sensibility. The titlular story, “How Some Abuelitas Keep Their Chicana Granddaughters Still So That They Can Paint Their Portraits in Winter,” is about a grandmother that tells terrifying fairy tales - including ones about cannibalistic tamale makers and dog demons from hell - to her grandchildren, reimagining those cautionary tales in much the same way as Machado’s “The Husband Stitch” narrator does. Painting Their Portraits in Winter by Myriam GurbaĪ beautifully imaginative collection of fabulist, magical realist short stories by this Mexican-American author, Painting is a book of creepy yet hilariously witty stories full of bodies: alive, dead, and ghostly. Here are eight queer short story collections that embody the same kind of creepy, “bodies as horror,” fabulist, dark fairy tale feel that Machado’s book does. It was, after all, one of Autostraddle‘s top 10 queer and feminist books of 2017. Nita is certainly not alone in her love for Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado and likely not in her deprivation either. Welcome back to Ask Your Friendly Neighborhood Lesbrarian! Queer writer Nita Tyndall recently tweeted: “Book twitter, please rec me all your queer, creepy short stories/collections a la HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES.
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