![]() Women have magic in them that theme comes up repeatedly throughout the story as Alex, our narrator, recounts her life from childhood to adulthood, trying to understand the Mass. When Women Were Dragons exposes a world that wants to keep women small-their lives and their prospects-and examines what happens when they rise en masse and take up the space they deserve. When Women Were Dragons paints an incredibly accurate picture of what 1950s American society looked like, with one clear difference: women could turn into dragons. ![]() In this timely and timeless speculative novel, award-winning author Kelly Barnhill boldly explores rage, memory, and the tyranny of forced limitations. Watching her beloved cousin Bea become dangerously obsessed with the forbidden. It’s taboo to speak of.įorced into silence, Alex nevertheless must face the consequences of this astonishing event: a mother more protective than ever an absentee father the upsetting insistence that her aunt never even existed and Was it their choice? What will become of those left behind? Why did Alex’s beloved aunt Marla transform but her mother did not? Alex doesn’t know. In the first adult novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Ogress and The Orphans, Alex Green is a young girl in a world much like ours, except for its most seminal event: the Mass Dragoning of 1955, when hundreds of thousands of ordinary wives and mothers sprouted wings, scales, and talons left a trail of fiery destruction in their path and took to the skies. "Completely fierce, unmistakably feminist, and subversively funny." -Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry A fiery feminist tale set in 1950s America where thousands of women have spontaneously transformed into dragons, exploding notions of a woman’s place in the world and expanding minds about accepting others for who they really are. ![]()
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