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“When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill ” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read. “Completely fierce, unmistakably feminist, and subversively funny.” —Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in ChemistryIn 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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This is the story of the seminal event of the 1950’s. The day when women had had enough of being minimized, excluded and silenced. The day when women turned their heads toward the sky and spontaneously transformed into dragons. It is a story of a collective frustration, in fact of a collective rage, at the tyranny that forced them to live and be a certain way. An allegory for what can (could?) happen when women rise as one and take up the space that they deserve.The book is dedicated to Christine Blasey Ford. In her acknowledgements the author writes: “I, along with the rest of America, listened with horror and incandescent fury to the brave, stalwart testimony of Christine Blasey Ford, as she begged the Senate to reconsider their Supreme Court Justice nominee and make a different choice, and I decided to write a story about rage.”This book is not based on Christine Blasey Ford or her testimony, but it would not have existed without that woman’s bravery, her calm adherence to the facts, and her willingness to relive one of the worst moments of her life to help America save itself from itself. Her actions didn’t work, but they still mattered.”