num_pages: 352
description: A rollicking feminist tale set in 1950s America where thousands of women have spontaneously transformed into dragons exploding notions of a womans place in the world and expanding minds about accepting others for who they really are.The first adult novel by the Newbery award-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon.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 Alexs beloved aunt Marla transform but her mother did not? Alex doesnt know. Its 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 watching her beloved cousin Bea become dangerously obsessed with the forbidden.In this timely and timeless speculative novel award-winning author Kelly Barnhill boldly explores rage memory and the tyranny of forced limitations. When Women Were Dragons exposes a world that wants to keep women smalltheir lives and their prospectsand examines what happens when they rise en masse and take up the space they deserve.
language: English
title: When Women Were Dragons
publisher: Doubleday