![]() The twist is that each woman is a famous character from a fairy tale. 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. This book has one of the most unique storylines I’ve come across in years How to be Eaten by Maria Adelmann is all about a support group of women who come together in the basement of a YMCA to tell their stories. With a special talent for pressing the sharp up against the tender, Adelmann explores the many pathways through the titular condition. ![]() Sometimes they do this by hurting someone else or getting hurt sometimes by submitting, other times by mounting a rebellion. 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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