The release date for the English version of 'When Women Were Dragons' by
Kelly Barnhill is May 2023. 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.
A humorous feminist story that takes place in 1950s America, when thousands of women have magically changed into dragons, shattering preconceived ideas about what it is to be a woman and encouraging people to embrace others for who they are. . The Girl Who Drank the Moon's Newbery Award-winning author's first adult book
Alex Green grows up in a world that is quite similar to ours, but for the Mass Dragoning of 1955, which changed the course of history by causing hundreds of thousands of regular mothers and wives to develop wings, scales, and talons, leave a path of flaming devastation in their wake, and take to the sky. Was that their decision? What fate awaits those who are left behind? Why did Alex's mother not change, while her dear aunt Marla did? Alex is unsure. It is forbidden to discuss.
Despite being forced to remain silent, Alex still has to deal with the fallout from this incredible event: a guarded mother, a father who seldom shows up, the distressing assertion that her aunt never lived, and having to watch her close cousin Bea become dangerously fixated with the taboo.
Award-winning author Kelly Barnhill bravely examines anger, memory, and the oppression of imposed constraints in this timeless and topical futuristic fiction. When Women Were Dragons explores what happens when women rise up in large numbers and occupy the space they are rightfully entitled to, exposing a society that seeks to limit women's potential and existence.