when women were dragons a novel book review

Too young for dragoning, with a mother long gone (though not dead…just farther away than most anyone could be), her aunt flies off into the spring sky. In one day, women from across the country, from all walks of life, from homemakers to drag queens, begin to sprout wings and scales and talons and, before flying from the lives that kept them in boxes of starched cuffs, damask drapes, and pot roast promptly at 6:30 every night, burned away those things that hurt them the worst, and seemed to fly into oblivion.Īlex Green was left behind. The dragons are women and are specifically women who are literally breaking their bounds. And those dragons are a dark secret that is not only taboo,' but is actively stifled at the highest levels of power. In this version of the world, dragons exist. The book takes place in America in the 1950s-but not quite the America we know. one of my favorite books to come out in the last year When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill. This question is one of the central ideas of this story. 'I encourage you to consider a question: who benefits, my dear, when you force yourself to not feel angry?' Books in Hutchinson, Kansas, recommending one of my favorite books of the past year: When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill.

And when it does, this, too, will be unmentionable… Perfect for fans of THE HANDMAID’S TALE, VOX, and THE POWER.Hi, this is Sara Crow, owner of Crow & Co. And nothing will be the same after that.Įverything is about to change, forever. Whether anyone likes it or not, the Mass Dragoning is coming. But she is a ghostly shadow of her former self, and with scars across her body – wide, deep burns, as though she had been attacked by a monster who breathed fire.Īlex, growing from young girl to fiercely independent teenager, is desperate for answers, but doesn’t get any.

Then Alex’s mother disappears, and reappears a week later, one quiet Tuesday, with no explanation whatsoever as to where she has been. And Alex doesn’t see the little old lady after that. In her next-door neighbour’s garden, in the spot where the old lady usually sits, is a huge dragon, an astonished expression on its face before it opens its wings and soars away across the rooftops. Alex Green is four years old when she first sees a dragon.

In a world where girls and women are taught to be quiet, the dragons inside them are about to be set free … In this timely and timeless speculative novel, set in 1950s America, Kelly Barnhill exposes a world that wants to keep girls and women small – and examines what happens when they rise up.

When women were dragons a novel book review