![]() We see everything through Alex’s eyes, as the government, in the throes of the Red Scare and McCarthyism, tries to bury the event and expunge all traces. Marla leaves behind her child Beatrice, only a toddler, and Alex’s mother raises the child as her own. The novel unfolds through the perspective of Alexandra Green, a young girl who witnesses her elderly neighbor in the aftermath of her dragoning, and whose Aunt Marla, her mother’s only sibling and closest friend, disappears after her dragoning. Why did this happen? What impact would this have on the loved ones left behind? What of the biological process that caused this to happen? And could this continue to happen? How would society react to this event? This novel imagines a global historical event, the Mass Dragoning of 1955, when hundreds of thousands of women worldwide transformed into dragons, and flew away, leaving behind fractured families and bewildered friends. ![]() Our culture has had a minor fascination with the notion of dragons, whether they existed in our history, or as creatures of fantasy. ![]()
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