when women were dragons a novel book review

When the men in your own family vote against candidates who will protect the rights of the women in their families. It’s hard not to think that, when you can’t think of many instances of an old white man defending your rights. It is so easy to start thinking that all men are evil and that if it wasn’t for men, our lives as women would be so much easier. How awful is that? My fate as a woman, my rights as a human being, are dependent upon a bunch of old white men. The national media considers us a safe state, but we only will be if people vote in November. if Josh Shapiro wins the gubernatorial election. The state I live in, Pennsylvania, will only continue to allow safe access to abortion if Democrats retain power of the executive branch this November, i.e. Wade and end access to safe abortions for women in the US, unless it is protected by their respective state. A Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. On Monday, a draft of a Supreme Court opinion was leaked.

To say it’s been an interesting week would be an understatement and as such, the review feels incredibly pertinent today. 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.Ĭlick on this graphic to explore the book page on LibraryThing! Review

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. I’d heard wonderful things about Kelly’s middle grade novels and her first adult novel certainly did not disappoint.Īlex 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. I love all things pertaining to dragons and I was immediately sucked in by the description of When Women Were Dragons.

When women were dragons a novel book review