When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

Title: When Women Were Dragons
Author: Kelly Barnhill
Genre: Fantasy, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Magical Realism, LGBT, Feminism

This tale takes place during the 1950s & 60s when all of a sudden thousands of women just disappear from their homes. They devour their husbands and leave behind a fiery wreckage. It was dragons. But discussing dragons is too uncomfortable so no one talks about the devastation that was left in the wake of the "mass dragoning". This coming-of-age story centers on a single family with a child named Alex and how she must endure growing up being lied to all the time. This book encapsulates what it might have been like to grow up as a woman in the 50s and what might have happened if women just decided they had enough.

-Gina

Check out When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill @ the library!