Girls of a certain age : stories / Maria Adelmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adelmann, Maria, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American.

Genre:

Short stories, American.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

v, 231 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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Elegy

Pets are for rich kids

Middlemen

The replacements

None of these will bring disaster

The portrait

How to wait

Unattached

The lunatic report

First aid

Human bonding

The wayside.

ISBN:

9780316450812

0316450812

OCLC:

1158046316