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Maria Adelmann

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Maria Adelmann’s work has been published by Tin House, n+1, The Threepenny Review, Indiana Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Lit Hub, Electric Literature, and others. She has been awarded prizes by the Baker Artist Awards and the Maryland State Arts Council, and her work has been selected as a Distinguished Story in The Best American Short Stories. She has an MFA in fiction from The University of Virginia. She enjoys learning complicated new crafts and letting personal projects take over her life. A longtime resident of Baltimore, Adelmann recently ended up in Copenhagen after getting stuck there during the pandemic. ...more

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Average rating: 3.54 · 20,666 ratings · 3,423 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	How to Be Eaten 3.55 avg rating — 18,582 ratings — published 2022 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Girls of a Certain Age 3.41 avg rating — 1,975 ratings — published 2021 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Adjunct 3.86 avg rating — 109 ratings — expected publication 2026 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Maria Adelmann (?)

“Morals create a labyrinth of rules geared toward blaming the victim”
― Maria Adelmann, How to Be Eaten

tags: abuse, blame, victims

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“What I want, desperately, is for someone to sit next to me for a moment and hold my hand and say one kind thing I didn’t know was true.”
― Maria Adelmann, Girls of a Certain Age

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“But something changes after tragedy,” she says. “It’s like you’ve spent your whole life putting one foot in front of the other, knowing the ground would always be there to meet you, and then suddenly, one day… it isn’t. The bottom has dropped out. The unbelievable happens and you just… fall.”
― Maria Adelmann, How to Be Eaten

tags: ptsd, tragedy, trauma

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