The release date for the English version of 'The Grace Year' by
Kim Liggett is Oct 2019. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Nothing is said about the grace year. It is prohibited.
Girls in Garner County are informed they have the ability to entice adult males out of bed and incite jealously in women. They think that the very essence of a girl on the verge of womanhood, a strong aphrodisiac, emanates from their skin. In order to unleash their power into the wild and return cleansed and prepared for marriage, that is the reason they are exiled for their sixteenth year. Not all of them, however, will return home unharmed.
Tierney James, sixteen, longs for a better existence—a world free from prejudice towards women or friends. However, as her own grace year approaches, she swiftly learns that there are other terrifying aspects of life as well. Not even the guys who are poaching in the woods, hoping to get a lady so they can sell it for a huge profit, are involved. They could be the biggest danger to one another.
The Grace Year explores the complicated and even twisted relationships between girls, the women they ultimately become, and the tough choices they make in between with witty writing and harsh reality.