![]() ![]() It was such a good exploration of pent up emotions and the consequences of not talking. I loved the way it explored that pressure and the burden it put on people, Alex’s journey through protective denial and how it all spiralled into messy emotions at the end. And society “forgets” and buries it every time. Some just leave, form communes, or explore the stars. Set in 1950s and 1960s America, when the world becomes too limiting for women, they transform. WHEN WOMEN WERE DRAGONS is a book about identity and struggling to be you in a world that has rigid definitions. This book is one of those that is just so incredible I’m lost for words. ![]() ![]() Writing the review for WHEN WOMEN WERE DRAGONS is going to be one of the hard ones to write. It’s taboo to speak of, even more so than her crush on Sonja, her schoolmate.įorced 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. 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. But this version of 1950s 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. Alex Green is a young girl in a world much like ours. ![]()
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