“In a world where girls and women are taught to be quiet, the dragons inside them are about to be set free – and nothing will ever be the same again.”Īlex Green is four when she first sees a dragon. This book doesn’t have a fast-pasted story that keeps you on the edge of your seat, however, it is deeply moving, unapologetically feminist and incredibly powerful especially with regard to last Friday’s devastating Supreme Court ruling in the US. I kept putting it down and coming back to it over the course of nearly 3 weeks. 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.I must admit, it took me a while to read When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill.
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. The first adult novel by the Newbery award-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the MoonĪlex 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.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.
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