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When Women Were Dragons - Paperback
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When Women Were Dragons
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After the Mass Dragoning of 1955, Alex Green grows up among rules about what must never be discussed. As she cares for her younger cousin, the silence around the women who transformed becomes impossible to accept.
Spinebound shelf note: Barnhill makes a fantastical event feel immediate through the everyday pressure to keep quiet.
Edition details
- Author: Kelly Barnhill
- Paperback
- ISBN: 9780593466575
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday
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Details
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780593466575
Praise
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Completely fierce, unmistakably feminist, and subversively funny, When Women Were Dragons brings the heat to misogyny with glorious imagination and talon-sharp prose. Check the skies tonight, you might just see your mother.
Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry
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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
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[A] riveting historical fantasy... What's surprising about Barnhill's rare foray into adult fiction is its subversiveness and feminist rage. It's a powerful, searing novel that feels deeply true, despite its magical premise.
BuzzFeed
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Kelly Barnhill's poetic, pointed tale tackles the era's pervasive silence concerning all things female.
Christian Science Monitor
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