"Kelly Barnhill couldn’t have realized when she wrote When Women Were Dragons how prescient it would be when it went on sale this month.Barnhill’s prose is gorgeous and powerful."
"Kelly Barnhill’s poetic, pointed tale tackles the era’s pervasive silence concerning all things female." It’s a powerful, searing novel that feels deeply true, despite its magical premise."
" riveting historical fantasy.What’s surprising about Barnhill’s rare foray into adult fiction is its subversiveness and feminist rage. Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians Trilogy "Ferociously imagined, incandescent with feeling, this book is urgent and necessary and as exhilarating as a ride on dragonback." Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry Check the skies tonight-you might just see your mother." "Completely fierce, unmistakably feminist, and subversively funny, When Women Were Dragons brings the heat to misogyny with glorious imagination and talon-sharp prose. 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.Ī Best Book of the Year: GOODREADS, BUZZFEED, BOOKRIOT, KIRKUS and LIBRARY JOURNAL 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
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