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Hello, my name is Maria Carmen, and I have something important to tell you. I know you've probably heard these types of success stories before and are a little skeptical, but I'm telling you this is true and can really happen for you. Ten years ago, after my divorce, I needed to find a way to support myself. I was one of those individuals that never went to college or had a trade skill, so there weren't a lot of job choices for me.

What was I to do? I started looking into entry...

A highly anticipated debut by one of the most ferociously gifted young writers working today (Michelle Huneven)

In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women s lives and the violence visited upon their...

»Willkommen im Haus von Machado. Treten Sie ein in den verbotenen Raum. Genießen Sie den Augenblick, wenn der Boden unter Ihren Füßen wegbricht.« Parul Sehgal, The New York Times

Das Archiv der Träume ist Carmen Maria Machados ganz persönliche Geschichte und literarische Auseinandersetzung mit toxischen Beziehungen. Aber auch eine Geschichte des Heranwachsens und des sexuellen Erwachens im ländlichen Amerika.

Endlich scheint in den USA etwas in Bewegung zu geraten: Die gleichgeschlechtliche Ehe rückt in greifbare Nähe und Carmen Maria Machado stürzt sich in ihre...

"A fascinating and disturbing book. . . a literary grenade seeking to blow apart Opus Dei's benign and exalted image. . . a picture of an obsessively secretive, manipulative and sexist organization with a virtual cultlike veneration of its founder."-Boston GlobeTapia's book is a comprehensive account of the inner workings of the women's branch of Opus Dei. It should fascinate sociologists and feminist and contribute to needed self-criticism in the Roman Catholic Church. . . A best seller in Spain, and a success in Germany, Portugal and Italy, Tapia's book has important lessons not only...