Calamity, a woman as contrary as the tides around her Caribbean island home, is confronting two of life's biggest dramas. When objects begin appearing out of nowhere, Calamity knows that the special gift she has not felt since childhood has returned-her ability to find lost things. Followed by an entire grove of cashew trees. Then, a blue and white dish she hasn't seen in years. "First it's her mother's missing gold brooch. Earthy and otherworldly, antic and sexy, queer and caustic, comic and deadly serious." And in the bravura novella “Especially Heinous,” Machado reimagines every episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a show we naively assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgängers, ghosts, and girls-with-bells-for-eyes. One woman’s surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted houseguest. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery within the seams of the store’s prom dresses. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. A wife refuses her husband’s entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. 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 bodies. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. "Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. It would by any standards be an extraordinary story, but what elevates her account is the beauty of the writing: it is clear-eyed and playful, luminous and melodic, fearless, funny and always truthful, from the first word to the last." Peggy's life comprises art and passion, family and separation, tragedy, celebration and the unexpected - and irresistible - force of love. And as Ewan's muse, Peggy inspired one of the twentieth century's greatest love songs, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face. Together, Peggy and Ewan helped lay the foundations of the British folk revival, through the formative - and controversial - Critics Group and the landmark BBC Radio Ballads series. It was in England that she met the man, some two decades older and with a wife and family, with whom she would share the next thirty-three years: the actor, playwright and songwriter Ewan MacColl. Her father was the noted musicologist Charles Seeger her mother, the modernist composer Ruth Crawford and her brother Pete, the celebrated writer of protest songs.Īfter studying at Radcliffe College, in 1955 Peggy left to travel the world. Summary: "Born in New York City in 1935, Peggy Seeger enjoyed a childhood steeped in music and politics.
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