A fearless, darkly playful debut exploring the many impossible choices that accompany 21st century femaleness.
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? Finding the.
A fearless, darkly playful debut exploring the many impossible choices that accompany 21st century femaleness.
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.
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? Finding themselves in 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.
A fearless, darkly playful debut exploring the many impossible choices that accompany 21st century femaleness.
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.
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? Finding themselves in 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.
A fearless, darkly playful debut exploring the many impossible choices that accompany 21st century femaleness