Literary Fiction

How to Be Eaten

by Maria Adelmann

Five women gather in a New York City basement support group to process their traumas—but these are the women from fairy tales, now grappling with PTSD in contemporary America. Bernice dated Bluebeard, Ruby wears the wolf as a coat, Gretel questions her memories of captivity. A brilliant, darkly comic reimagining of classic tales as #MeToo testimonies that interrogates victimhood, survival, and the stories we tell about women.

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