” I was four years old when I first met a dragon.
Told from Alex’s POV both before and after the Dragoning and interspersed with newS articles, letters and scientific research, When Women Were Dragons brings to light the choices we make as Women and the consequences that can come from trying to deny who, and what, we are.
But as big as the consequences are country wide, Alex is living with her own, a furiously diligent and overbearing mother, who denies the existence of Alex’s aunt, an ever distant father and a new sister who is wild and untamable and far too interested in Dragons. Alex Green was only a girl when this happened and couldn’t understand the anger and fear and silence that came from it, but she was a good girl and did as she was told Do not talk about Dragons & do not look up to the sky. In 1950’S America things seem to be the norm, until 1955 and the mass Dragoning that affects the entire US. “They stepped out of their robes like nymphs, and they stepped out of their bodies like monsters.” I received a copy of this book from the publisher for review & can confirm all thoughts and opinions are my own. Through loss, rage, and self-discovery, this story follows Alex’s journey as she deals with the events leading up to and beyond the Mass Dragoning, and her connection with the phenomenon itself. It’s taboo to speak of, even more so than her crush on Sonja, her schoolmate.įorced into silence, Alex nevertheless must face the consequences of dragons: a mother more protective than ever a father growing increasingly distant the upsetting insistence that her aunt never even existed and a new “sister” obsessed with dragons far beyond propriety. 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. But this version of 1950’s America is characterized by a significant 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. Alex Green is a young girl in a world much like ours.
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