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When Women Were Dragons

When Women Were Dragons

Barnhill, Kelly

Hardcover

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Publisher Price: $30.00

ISBN10: 0385548222
ISBN13: 9780385548229
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Published: May 3 2022
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
A GOODREADS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A fiery feminist fantasy 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.

Ferociously imagined...and as exhilarating as a ride on dragonback. --Lev Grossman, bestselling author of The Magicians Trilogy

Completely fierce, unmistakably feminist, and subversively funny. --Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry

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. 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. It's taboo to speak of.

Forced 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

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