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PublisherLittle Brown & Company

ISBN-100316450812

ISBN-139780316450812

eBay Product ID (ePID)20050071140

Product Key Features

Book TitleGirls of a Certain Age

Number of Pages240 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicContemporary Women, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary

Publication Year2021

GenreFiction

AuthorMaria Adelmann

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight12.5 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2020-937670

Reviews"It's hard to capture the line a young woman must walk when trying to make sense of belonging. But Maria Adelmann skillfully handles the insecurity of female youth in her collection of stories." -- CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS, "Maria Adelmann renders the experience of young womanhood so viscerally that I felt I was perched somewhere within her narrators' brains as I read. The subject matter is often dark, and Adelmann grapples with that darkness fully and beautifully, yet these stories are also bursting with wit and whimsy. Adelmann can tease out both the anguish and perverse humor of a situation in a single dazzling sentence. This collection feels like its own singular world, and I loved being inside of it." -- Alexis Schaitkin, author of SAINT X, "This book really normalized crying, shaking, throwing up, ripping your hair out, and banging your head against the wall, both literally and metaphorically. If you're looking for an anthology of short stories that collates, and, in certain ways, assuages the collective despair of 21st-century femaleness, swipe right on this one!" -- Debanjana Das, Buzzfeed, "With eyes wide open, Adelmann carefully observes and meticulously records what happens to these girls of a certain age, paying special attention to those too easily ignored, overlooked and dismissed." -- SHELF AWARENESS

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal813/.6

SynopsisA 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 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. Sometimes they do this by hurting someone else or getting hurt; sometimes by submitting, other times by mounting a rebellion. With a special talent for pressing the sharp up against the tender, Adelmann explores the many pathways through the titular condition. 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.

LC Classification NumberPS3601.D46675G57