When Women Were Dragons
A Novel
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Kimberly Farr
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Mark Bramhall
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Auteur(s):
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Kelly Barnhill
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A GOODREADS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A fiery feminist fantasy tale set in 1950s America where thousands of women have spontaneously transformed into dragons, exploding notions of a woman’s place in the world and expanding minds about accepting others for who they really are.
"Ferociously imagined…and as exhilarating as a ride on dragonback."—Lev Grossman, bestselling author of The Magicians Trilogy
"Completely fierce, unmistakably feminist, and subversively funny."—Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry
In the first adult novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Ogress and The Orphans, Alex 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. 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.
Forced 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.
In this timely and timeless speculative novel, award-winning author Kelly Barnhill boldly explores rage, memory, and the tyranny of forced limitations. 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.
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Ce que les critiques en disent
A Best Book of the Year: GOODREADS, BUZZFEED, BOOKRIOT, KIRKUS and LIBRARY JOURNAL
"Completely fierce, unmistakably feminist, and subversively funny, When Women Were Dragons brings the heat to misogyny with glorious imagination and talon-sharp prose. Check the skies tonight—you might just see your mother."—Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry
"Ferociously imagined, incandescent with feeling, this book is urgent and necessary and as exhilarating as a ride on dragonback."—Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians Trilogy
"[A] riveting historical fantasy...What’s surprising about Barnhill’s rare foray into adult fiction is its subversiveness and feminist rage. It’s a powerful, searing novel that feels deeply true, despite its magical premise."—BuzzFeed
IT is a (sub), title for every political minority
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The Truth Will Prevail
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An Absolutely beautiful story of Feminism!
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Boring
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Worth it for the ending!
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I loved this!
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engrossing from the book's dedication
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The story itself is a bit slow to start, I kept thinking about someone’s review saying it would have been better as a poem or short story…but honestly it just needs to be read with a open heart.
The main character, Alex is relatable in a way that one struggles to be “a good girl” and listen to the men around her, but wants to follow her heart and is stuck.
Without giving away the story…I believe most women want to be dragons and break free from whatever story they were told to believe…some of us just can’t.
Oh to be a Dragon!
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This may be my favorite book
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I loved the beginning. Following Alex's limited knowledge about dragons and dragoning and slowly learning more with them and through the doctor's notes about current events at the time was fascinating.
And then everything went downhill.
A lot of concepts weren't thought out, I know the things we learn about dragons at the beginning are meant to be out of date and incorrect, but it doesn't ever seem to be corrected or updated? women change cause they're angry? or happy? or they were always meant to change? some can change back and forth but others can't? (I thought that was going to be a repeat of Ben Grimm/The Thing from the Fantastic Four comics *spoiler alert* when Ben was the only one of the four who was constantly stuck in his power and it's only after years of searching for a cure that he realizes he always had the power to change back into a human at will, he just never believed in himself enough to do it.). But nothing more was mentioned about the dragons and their desire to be dragon or human.
For a story about rage and feminism, I really thought there would be more of both. women turned into dragons, killed their shitty husbands and then disappeared for years and didn't do anything else with their rage or want for equality? they wanted to be equal to the point of choosing to remove themselves from society entirely rather than interacting with it to get what they wanted? sure, they came back...like 8 years later.
I thought the cough/flu that was going around was going to be some big plotline, instead it was just a way to kill characters off, just because.
I also thought we'd finally be witness to the reveal of Beatrice's mother actually being Marla. And I thought the whole thing with knots being magic was going to have a deeper meaning than it actually did.
I did love that anyone who identified as a woman was able to turn into a dragon and not just cis women.
Great concept, terrible execution
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