The Dangerous Age & Elise Lindtner

In 1910, Karin Michaëlis published a novel that readers couldn't stop talking about. THE DANGEROUS AGE and its sequel, ELSIE LINDTNER, follow a woman at “the dangerous age”—perimenopause!—who walks out of her marriage and into a life of her own making. In candid, restless, often very funny pages, she takes stock of love, aging, and the stories women are told about all three.

Translated by Beatrice Marshall, Michaëlis’s scandalous, sharp, and startlingly modern novel returns along with its sequel in a new edition introduced by a writer who knows a thing or two about women on the brink—Rachel Yoder, author of Nightbitch and editor of Scavenger, a new reprint series that combines Brink’s mission of showcasing complex, out-of-bounds writing with Yoder’s rapacious taste for overlooked authors making bold choices.