Her Body and Other Parties

This collection of short stories can be read in any order, as each story is a self-contained narrative with its own characters and plot. There is no overarching storyline that connects them sequentially.

This collection was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. It also received the Shirley Jackson Award for a single-author collection.

While distinct in its short story format, this collection introduces many of the thematic concerns and stylistic approaches, such as body horror, magical realism, and feminist critique, that are further explored in her later memoir, "In the Dream House."