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Also by Kelly Barnhill:

The Crane Husband, March 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
When Women Were Dragons, May 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
The Ogress and the Orphans, March 2022
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WHEN WOMEN WERE DRAGONS
By: Kelly Barnhill

A Novel

Doubleday
May 2022
On Sale: May 3, 2022
Featuring: Alex
352 pages
ISBN: 0385548222
EAN: 9780385548229
Kindle: B09BTZ5Z29
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fantasy | Coming of Age

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.