Ranging in style from the magical to the terrifying to the calm tones of a self-help manual, Girls of a Certain Age captures the spectrum of strategies we apply to the pain of life, strategies that we persist in pretending might actually work. Maria Adelmanns How to Be Eaten is a novel about five modern women attending group narrative therapy for the traumas in their pasts that made them famous. With a special talent for pressing the sharp up against the tender, Adelmann explores the many pathways through the titular condition.

Kirby, author of Shit Cassandra Saw Maria Adelmann’s debut novel is jagged and daring and darkly funny. Dark, edgy, and wickedly funny, this debut for readers of Carmen Maria Machado, Kristen Arnett, and Kelly Link takes our coziest, most beloved childhood stories, exposes them as anti-feminist nightmares, and transforms them into a new kind of myth for grown-up women. Unlike many other books in the genre, this story isnt simply a retelling. Title: How To Be Eaten Author: Maria Adelmann Genre: Fiction, fairy tales (adult) Publisher: Little Brown and Company Publication Date: May 2022 Page count: 286 Rating: How To Be Eaten began showing up in various areas of the top-picks sections at my local bookstore some time in late 2022 and the premise was so unique I was instantly intrigued. Sometimes they do this by hurting someone else or getting hurt sometimes by submitting, other times by mounting a rebellion. Funny, violent, cutting, and insightful, How to Be Eaten made me want to join this unlikely group of confidants and start confessing my own secrets, just to keep the conversation going. How to Be Eaten by Maria Adelmann is perfect for fans of modernized fairytales. What is the right way to handle an abusive partner? An unexpected pregnancy? A toxic friendship? Chronic unemployment? Gender dysphoria? A family member going to war? A disability? Anger? Loneliness?įinding themselves in various kinds of disempowering, frightening, or otherwise unendurable circumstances, the girls, women, and non-binary characters in Maria Adelmann's stories look for ways to free themselves into new lives or, at the very least, new states of feeling. Lorrie Moore meets Ottessa Moshfegh in this darkly playful and subversive debut story collection exploring the many impossible choices that accompany 21st century femaleness.

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