Dark, edgy, and wickedly funny, this debut for readers of Carmen Maria Machado, Kristen Arnett, and Kelly Link takes our coziest, most beloved childhood stories, exposes them as anti-feminist nightmares, and transforms them into a new kind of myth for grown-up women. What really brought them here? What secrets will they reveal? And is it too late for them to rescue each other?
Though the women start out wary of one another, judging each other’s stories, gradually they begin to realize that they may have more in common than they supposed. And Raina's love story will shock them all. Ashlee, the winner of a Bachelor-esque dating show, wonders if she really got her promised fairy tale ending. Gretel questions her memory of being held captive in a house made of candy. Ruby, once devoured by a wolf, now wears him as a coat. In present-day New York City, five women meet in a basement support group to process their traumas. Bernice grapples with the fallout of dating a psychopathic, blue-bearded billionaire. How to Be Eaten Maria Adelmann 3.67 4,731 ratings864 reviews This darkly funny and provocative novel reimagines classic fairy tale characters as modern women in a support group for trauma. Previously a resident of Baltimore, Adelmann currently lives in Copenhagen, where she got stuck during the pandemic, an experience you can read about here.One of NPR's Best Books of the Year: This darkly funny and provocative novel reimagines classic fairy tale characters as modern women in a support group for trauma. She was a Henry Hoyns Fellow at the University of Virginia, where she earned her MFA in Fiction and a Cornell Tradition Fellow at Cornell University, where she earned her BA in English and psychology.įrom arts to crafts to writing, she finds joy in experimenting and creating projects of all kinds. Murray Committee on the Arts Scholarship, and recently attended the Art Omi Writers' residency.Īdelmann has worked variously as a hotel reviewer, product tester, and copywriter, and also taught creative writing on land (at the University of Virginia) and at sea (on Semester at Sea). Coxe Award for Creative Writing, the Arthur Lynn Andrews Award for Fiction, and the Edward M. She has been awarded a Baker Artist Award from The Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance, an Individual Artist Award from The Maryland State Arts Council, a fellowship from The Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund in Film and Media Studies at Johns Hopkins, the Balch Prize for the Short Story, the George H. She has written for Tin House, n+1, Electric Lit, McSweeney’s, LitHub, The Threepenny Review, the Indiana Review, Epoch, AQR, MQR, and many others, and her work has been selected by The Best American Short Stories as a distinguished story. Maria Adelmann is the author of the short story collection, Girls of a Certain Age, and the novel, How to Be Eaten, which was a Belletrist bookclub pick and named a best book of the month by TIME Magazine, Glamour, and Bustle.
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