When Women Were Dragons

Sprache: English

Am 7. Mai 2022 von Diversified Publishing veröffentlicht.

ISBN:: 978-0-593-60808-1

Learn about the Mass Dragoning of 1955 in which 300,000 women spontaneously transform into dragons...and change the world.

Alex Green is a young girl in a world much like ours. But this version of 1950's America is characterized by a significant 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. Seemingly for good. 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, even more so than her crush on Sonja, her schoolmate.

Forced into silence, Alex nevertheless must face the consequences of dragons: a mother more protective than ever; a father growing increasingly distant; the upsetting insistence that her aunt never …

Learn about the Mass Dragoning of 1955 in which 300,000 women spontaneously transform into dragons...and change the world.

Alex Green is a young girl in a world much like ours. But this version of 1950's America is characterized by a significant 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. Seemingly for good. 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, even more so than her crush on Sonja, her schoolmate.

Forced into silence, Alex nevertheless must face the consequences of dragons: a mother more protective than ever; a father growing increasingly distant; the upsetting insistence that her aunt never even existed; and a new "sister" obsessed with dragons far beyond propriety. Through loss, rage, and self-discovery, this story follows Alex's journey as she deals with the events leading up to and beyond the Mass Dragoning, and her connection with the phenomenon itself.

5 Auflagen

Ho'nehe hat When Women Were Dragons von Kelly Regan Barnhill besprochen

Ein Buch über Unterdrückung und Befreiung

4 Sterne

Ich muss gestehen, dass ich mir was ganz anderes unter dem Buch vorgestellt habe. Es spielt größtenteils in den 50er 60er Jahren in einer gutbürgerlichen Kleinstadt in Wisconsin. Und die Geschichte erzählt von Mysogenie und den unschönen Umgang damit. Diese Unterdrückung bricht sich in Gestalt von Drachinnen bahn. Die Metapher von Drachen für viele unterdrückte Gruppen ist echt stark. Manchmal tut ein wenig Wut ganz gut.

rainbowreckoner hat When Women Were Dragons von Kelly Regan Barnhill besprochen

Nope.

2 Sterne

DNF. I was told women would be dragons. Women were... mostly oppressed and silenced. Relentlessly depressing when I thought it would be galvanizing.