I’d heard wonderful things about Kelly’s middle grade novels and her first adult novel certainly did not disappoint.Īlex 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. Check the skies tonight-you might just see your mother.I love all things pertaining to dragons and I was immediately sucked in by the description of When Women Were Dragons. "Completely fierce, unmistakably feminist, and subversively funny, When Women Were Dragons brings the heat to misogyny with glorious imagination and talon-sharp prose. "Ferociously imagined, incandescent with feeling, this book is urgent and necessary and as exhilarating as a ride on dragonback." - Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians Trilogy "Barnhill's sharp and lyrical prose showcases the joys and agonies of female power in this coming-of-age/alternate history." - Library Journal "Newbery winner Barnhill ( The Girl Who Drank the Moon) makes her adult debut with a deeply felt exploration of feminism in an alternate fantastical history.This allegory packs a punch." - Publishers Weekly This novel's magic goes far beyond the dragons." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) " complex, heartfelt story about following your heart and opening your mind to new possibilities. The first adult novel by the Newbery award-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon 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. In this timely and timeless speculative novel, award-winning author Kelly Barnhill boldly explores rage, memory, and the tyranny of forced limitations.
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 watching her beloved cousin Bea become dangerously obsessed with the forbidden.
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. A rollicking 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.Īlex 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.
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