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. 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. "Completely fierce, unmistakably feminist, and subversively funny." -Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry A fiery 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.And when it does, this, too, will be unmentionable. Whether anyone likes it or not, the Mass Dragoning is coming.Īnd nothing will be the same after that. Alex, 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.īut 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.
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. 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.Īlex 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.
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