Girls of a certain age : stories

Author

Maria Adelmann

Call Number

• FICTION ADEL (CEN)

Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Little, Brown and Co., [2021]

Physical Description

v, 231 pages ; 22 cm

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.