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. Bernice grapples with the fallout of dating a psychopathic, blue-bearded billionaire. In present-day New York City, five women meet in a basement support group to process their traumas. This darkly funny and provocative novel reimagines classic fairy tale characters as modern women in a support group for trauma. With the current fascination with true crime and reality television, this powerful first novel holds up a mirror to the reader and challenges our perceptions of truth.”― Booklist, Starred Review
“In this modern retelling of classic fairy tales, Adelmann shatters ‘happily ever after’…and brilliantly brings to light the historical exploitation and manipulation of female trauma in the media.
Both a meditation on trauma and a sendup of our society’s obsession with scripted reality, this book sings.” In the end, Adelmann’s true subject is actually her audience, the great anonymous we who consumes the horrors of violent husbands, ravaging wolves, hungry witches, and made-for-TV love stories with such compulsive demand we never pause to think what might come after the happy ending. However, it's her nuanced consideration of our own culpability that makes this book unique. “Adelmann travels the well-worn paths of some of the Brothers Grimm most famous fairy tales with stylistic panache and 21st-century verve. "a fresh and inventive gem." ― Publishers Weekly "Gorgeously written and mind-bending, How To Be Eaten is fiction as a magic trick: by redrawing these archetypal characters with modern, vivid, and gothic specificity, Adelmann reminds us that, be it enchanting or devastating, our myths remain." Pure fun pulsing with a dark heart.” ―Rachel Yoder, author of Nightbitch
“Even better than it sounds, How To Be Eaten presents vividly real women haunted by their fairy tale pasts in this deliciously angsty debut.
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