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by Carmen Maria Machado (Author), Dani (Illustrator, Artist) Format: Kindle Edition

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Shudder-To-Think, Pennsylvania, has been on fire for years. The coal mines beneath it are long since abandoned. The woods are full of rabbits with human eyes, a deer woman who stalks hungry girls, and swaths of skinless men. And the people in Shudder-to-Think? Well, they’re not doing so well either.
When El and Octavia wake up in a movie theater with no memory of the last few hours of their lives, the two teenage dirtbags begin a surreal and terrifying journey to discover the truth about the strange town that they call home. Like so many women in Shudder-to-Think before them, all they have is a void where the truth once was. But as time passes, El finds herself needing to know more about what has happened, while Octavia wants nothing more than to forget the forgetting. Can these two teens reconcile their differences before the horrible things lurking beneath their town emerge and swallow them whole? Collects The Low, Low Woods #1-6.

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“…a thought provoking, eerie, and well-timed look at how misogyny and the desire to hide it can be damaging to everyone. Readers who enjoy the more psychological aspects of horror will want to read this over and over again.”—Booklist (Starred Review)

“…a gloriously unnerving tale of monsters, sinkholes, witches, and yearning teenage dreams. Within the horror plot lives a touching tale of friendship, choices, grief, and empowering rage, with a female-centered queer and diverse cast of characters.” —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) --This text refers to the paperback edition.

About the Author

Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the memoir In the Dream House and the short story collection Her Body and Other Parties. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Brooklyn Public Library Literature Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize. In 2018 the New York Times listed Her Body and Other Parties as a member of "The New Vanguard," one of "15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century."

Her essays, fiction, and criticism have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta, Harper's Bazaar, Tin House, VQR, Conjunctions, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, The Believer, Guernica, Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Guggenheim Foundation, Michener-Copernicus Foundation, Elizabeth George Foundation, CINTAS Foundation, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. She is the Writer in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania and lives in Philadelphia with her wife. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08HVYJLKB
Publisher ‏ : ‎ DC; Illustrated edition (September 29, 2020)
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Carmen Maria Machado's debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, was a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Brooklyn Public Library Literature Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize. In 2018, the New York Times listed Her Body and Other Parties as a member of "The New Vanguard," one of "15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century."

Her essays, fiction, and criticism have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta, Harper’s Bazaar, Tin House, VQR, Conjunctions, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, The Believer, Guernica, Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Guggenheim Foundation, Michener-Copernicus Foundation, Elizabeth George Foundation, CINTAS Foundation, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. She is the Writer in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania and lives in Philadelphia with her wife.

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kenzie

Fantastic.

Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2022

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absolutely adore this comic & the way it handles its themes. the imagery is intense and beautiful, and the print quality is solid.

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Indre P

Exactly what I expected from the author

Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2020

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Feminist, dark, and oh so gay. Loved it. Mostly. There were parts where the story was confusing, and not my favorite graphics. But otherwise a story that makes you think. Also, great inclusivity on the characters!

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Sactokaren

Arrived in Perfect Condition

Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2022

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Needed to get this for book club. It arrived in stellar condition. I was able to read it in a day. I will reread prior to book club. Love this!

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Luke

Spectacular

Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2022

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Vivid characters, a haunting hook, a horrifying central mystery, gestural and provocative art that invites imaginative collaboration. A remarkable thing.

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An amazing experience

Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2020

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This was an amazing experience to read. Story and art pair perfectly, immersing the reader in a sad, horrifying and ultimately hopeful story.

I think that this will be a read that I can return to multiple times and find new messages with each visit.

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Bilbo Baggofgas

Did she or didn't she choose...

Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2023

An interesting way to approach a difficult societal cancer. The stories and characters were compelling, I only wish the world was fleshed out a little more. This is a story where the small town they're in should feel like a character itself, but it falls a little flat there. Perhaps they were going for a "this could happen in any town" vibe, but I feel like the environment the girls are in has a voice too and the art didn't quite capture it until the very end. Overall, I really appreciate this graphic novel, I just wish I knew what she chose in the end. I usually love an story that leaves me wondering,, but I was invested in knowing the girls destinies after what they went through.

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J. D. Estrada

Though possibly triggering, a powerful narrative of things we see every day and act as if we don't

Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2022

Unflinching, beautifully written and drawn, The Low, Low Woods deals with some HEAVY topics which I can't reveal without offering spoilers. Can definitely be triggering though it is a VERY real story even if it's immersed in fantasy. It has a female driven cast of characters and everything feels real, even the magic. Not a small feat by any means.

Set in Pennsylvania, the story revolves around two friends who suddenly have a lapse in their memory which prompts the question, if this happened to you, would you want to forget and move on or remember and try and deal with it. It seems like a simple enough question, but for anyone who breathes and has a pulse, it's a lot harder to decide. It's a pretty deep comment against the patriarchy, misogyny and things that women need to face on a constant basis.

Contains references to drugs, alcohol, sexual assault, sexual abuse, and several other things that can be triggering and though I normally don't put disclaimers like this, on this occasion it does seem pertinent.

Even with the sheer intensity of the narrative, I still found it an extremely original and engaging read, with great art and a gut punching story.

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Jonathan Pongratz

Okay, but I wanted more horror/fantasy

Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2023

This graphic novel was fun, but in the end it was just okay for me.

Alright, so we've got these two teens El and Vee. They're bestie lesbian friends that live in this bizarre place called Shudder-to-Think. One night at the movies they suffer a strange memory loss and decide to delve deeper. As they dig, they discover sinister secrets about their town and its dark past and present.

I really loved the premise. This clearly had a Silent Hill vibe (or Centralia if you prefer) that really worked. There was a dark ominous feel to every page that I just soaked right up.

El and Vee were interesting characters. We got some backstory throughout this volume of comics, and their interactions were really believable as besties who grew up together. There was a good contrast between the two of them too. El is a bit more pessimistic and comes from a poor family, while Vee is more of an optimist.

Where I started feeling conflicted was with the art. Overall it's pretty good. It has more of a gritty feel to it that may have been inspired by older comics. However, in some of the strips, the faces of characters got really distorted, enough to where it drew me out of the story.

I also felt that the plot ended up just being okay. Don't get me wrong, there was a lot of great ramp up of discovering what the big bad was, but once it was revealed I was a little underwhelmed, probably because it seemed more rooted in reality, or at least something that could happen in real life. The wow factor just wasn't quite there, but it was still entertaining.

I may not have liked this one a lot, but if you're on the fence, try it! You may just love it.

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Giulia

Maravilhosamente Carmen Maria Machado

Reviewed in Brazil on September 5, 2023

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Essa hq é uma coletânea de todos os volumes de "the low, low woods" capa dura com uma sobrecapa
A história segue os temas da Carmen Maria Machado, garotas com problemas, girls with sinkholes in their torsos etc

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Reviewed in Germany on March 18, 2022

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Marnanel Thurman

Horror for the "me too" moment

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 4, 2021

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Content warnings: sexual assault, child abuse, and (obviously) horror.

A pair of queer high school girls of colour. A small Pennsylvania mining town, which like Centralia is permanently ablaze. An aged child who works as the town's witch. And water that isn't all it seems.

I've read much of Machado's work before, and I had high expectations of her foray into writing comics. "The Low, Low Woods" easily surpassed them. It doesn't often happen that I curse aloud with surprise at a twist in the story, but this story made it happen.

I've seen good and bad reviews of this comic, and it's interesting how well they correlate with gender. Many men look at the story and dismiss it. The rest of us have lived the horror, and recognise its reflection.

I think the story's a bit too short. I loved the characters and I wanted to see more of them, so I read it again the same night.

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Mr John R Daley

A huge downturn for Hill House following A Basketful Of Heads

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 9, 2020

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Amateurish, derivative garbage that focuses on the sexuality of it’s school girl protagonists at every possible opportunity, whilst forgetting such fundamentals as plot, mood, character development and dialogue that might actually pass the lips of a real human being, rather than reading like it was ripped straight from the sound card of one of those ‘Mash means Smash’ robots (“What?”, “What?”, “What?”, “I thought you said something”).

Various story elements are randomly thrown in from nowhere, late-in-the-day, one after another, not as some sort of ‘plot twist’ but as ‘oh, I suddenly thought of something’ sticking plasters to try and stop the whole thing falling apart. They fail miserably.

Stick with the Skinless Boy from Harrow County and steer clear of the sorry Skinless Men simulacra that pop up throughout this story looking more like big Jelly Babies than nightmare fuel.

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