![]() ![]() The book shifts between following Alex, a girl whose life is changed forever by the events of that day, and of the testimony of a scientist to a governmental panel on un-American activities recounting an abbreviated history of dragoning (and the collective forgetting of it) throughout history. Only, this isn't the first time this has happened, and it's not even close. In the year 1955 thousands of women in the US dragon on the same day, followed by an immediate governmental and cultural cover up. When Women Were Dragons is pitched as a book about our world, except where sometimes women turn into dragons. ![]() I also really enjoyed her new middle grade novel The Ogress and the Orphans which was really an interesting look into how politics can intersect with kids literature (my full thoughts on that are here).Īs such, I felt like it was time to read the book she wrote last year geared towards adults. Her masterpiece Girl Who Drank the Moon made a lot of waves in children's lit circles, and remains my go-to recommendation for books that feel like Studio Ghibli Movies or bedtime stories with fairy tale vibes. Read if You Like: dragons, 1950s historical fantasy, memoir style writing, magical realism, feminist themes, fantasy without fight scenes, amorphous symbolism, queer humans, queer dragons, critiques of the US health education system, slice of life.Īs a Middle School English teacher, Kelly Barnhill is an author I recommend often. ![]()
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