Stories in Carmen Maria Machado’s “The Husband Stitch”

As I thought about texts for my “Monsters, Race, and Comics” course, Jaydn DeWald suggested I read Carmen Maria Machado and Dani’s The Low, Low Woods, a graphic novel that deals with issues of patriarchy, sexual assault, and trauma. He was teaching Machado’s collection of short stories, Her Body and Other Parties, in one of his courses, and he let me borrow the book. I haven’t read all of the…