Inside Madeleine

"With surgical insight, Inside Madeline delves into the most complex female territory imaginable and dissects until every honest bone is revealed. Bomer's prose doesn't flinch, doesn't filter—the bravery of these stories left me breathless.”
—Alissa Nutting, author of Tampa

From the author of Nine Months and Baby comes a daring new collection that seethes with alienation, lust and rage. Bomer takes us from hospitals, halfway houses, and alleyways, to boarding schools and Park Avenue penthouses, exploring the complex relationships girls have with their bodies, with other girls, and with boys. The title novella tracks the ins and outs of an outsider’s life: her childhood obesity and kinky sex life, her toxic relationships, whether familial or erotic, and her various disappearing acts, of body and mind.

Paula Bomer is the author of a novel, Nine Months (Soho Press), and a story collection, Baby (Word Riot Press). Her writing has appeared in The Mississippi Review, Open City, Fiction, Nerve, and Best American Erotica. She is the publisher of Sententia Books and a contributor to the literary blog, Big Other. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.

Table of Contents
 
"Eye Socket Girls"
first appeared in Girls: An Anthology (Global City Press)

"Breasts"
first appeared in The Mississippi Review Online
 
"Reading to the Blind Girl"
first appeared in Storyglossia

"Down the Alley"
first appeared in The New York Tyrant

"Cleveland Circle House"
 
"Pussies"
first appeared in Night Train
 
"The Favorite Daughter"
first appeared in Necessary Fiction
 
"Two Years" 
first appeared in Nerve
 
"Inside Madeleine"
an excerpt first appeared in Nerve