Sarah Schmelling has written about entertainment, travel and pop culture for The Washington Post, Spin, Paste, Salon, Newsweek, Real Simple, the Los Angeles Times, McSweeney's, World Hum and The Huffington Post. She lives with her husband and son outside of Washington, DC. Ophelia Joined the Group Maidens Who Don't Float is her first book.
When somebody has a heart attack, or huge high blood pressure, or their wife leaves them, they're going to begin to be shaken up, and they're going to realize something is off here: the anger isn't making me strong, it's making me weak.
Imagine if Jane Eyre had a Facebook page. Or Don Quixote, Dr. Jekyll, and Beowulf. Humorist Sarah Schmelling imagines all that and much more, in her book "Ophelia Joined the Group Maidens Who Don't Float."
When somebody has a heart attack, or huge high blood pressure, or their wife leaves them, they're going to begin to be shaken up, and they're going to realize something is off here: the anger isn't making me strong, it's making me weak. 
