![]() ![]() Most of the plot involves her struggles to care for her sister and to get to college despite a complete lack of familial support. Like her mother, Alex is a brilliant mathematician who is relentlessly pressured by society to leave math to men and instead to devote herself to raising her younger sister and staying within the domestic sphere. In this coming-of-age story, Alex grows up with the constant mystery of why some women dragon and what the phenomenon means for her family and her future.Īlex’s story, dragons aside, is a pretty straightforward coming of age tale taking her from her childhood through her early twenties, and revisiting her as an older woman. But across the country, women are turning into dragons and flying away in a process allied simply ‘dragoning’ – a few at a time, usually, with the exception of “the Mass Dragoning 0f 1955 – also known as The Day of Missing Mothers”. ![]() ![]() People are reluctant to even mention them, and the government suppresses news and research about them. This is not a romance, but it will appeal to those who like women’s history with a side of rage and fantasy.Īlex Green is a little girl in 1950’s middle America when she first sees a dragon. I couldn’t stop reading it even when it made my chest hurt, and I’ve thought of it so many times since, with scenes popping into my head as though I just read them yesterday. When Women Were Dragons is unlike any other book I’ve read and I found to be painful, joyous, and liberating. Genre: Literary Fiction, Science Fiction/Fantasy ![]()
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