The Women Could Fly

The Women Could Fly
Megan Giddings
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Hardback
h234 x 153mm - 288pg
18 Aug 2022 UK
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9781035001583
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Josephine Thomas has heard every conceivable theory about her mother' s disappearance. That she was kidnapped. Murdered. That she took on a new identity to start a new family. That she was a witch. This is the most worrying charge, because in a world where witches are real, peculiar behaviour raises suspicions and a woman - especially a Black woman - can find herself on trial for witchcraft. But fourteen years have passed since her mother' s disappearance, and now Jo is finally ready to let go of the past. Yet her future is in doubt. The State mandates that all women marry by the age of thirty - or enrol in a registry that allows them to be monitored, effectively forfeiting their autonomy. At twenty-eight, Jo is ambivalent about marriage. With her ability to control her life on the line, she feels as if she has her never understood her mother more. When she' s offered the opportunity to honour one last request from her mother' s will, Jo leaves her regular life to feel connected to her one last time.
Megan Giddings' s prose is brimming with wonder. The Women Could Fly is a candid appraisal of grief, inheritance, and the merits of unruliness. * Raven Leilani, Bestselling author of Luster * Profound, daring, wondrous, and utterly original. A feminist dystopian epic about a world where women' s life choices are policed and female power and autonomy are the most dangerous forces of all, Megan Giddings' The Women Could Fly offers a hypnotic blend of enchantment and outrage. I could not love this novel more. * Jessamine Chan, author of The School for Good Mothers * The Women Could Fly is one of the most exhilarating and fulfilling books I' ve read in years. It' s wildly imaginative, funny, deep, radical, and full of suspense. I read it in one giant gulp of pleasure. Megan Giddings is truly a remarkable writer. * Jamie Attenberg, author of The Middlesteins * The Women Could Fly lifts the veil of this world to show, amid the old grief and injustice, a glimmer of necessary magic. This is a gem of a book about womanhood, lineage, and defiance. * C Pam Zhang, author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold * The Women Could Fly drew me in immediately with its balance of humor and pain, magic and familiarity, and the unforgettable characters who are the novel' s beating heart. Reading this book is like putting on an old winter coat and discovering a magical talisman in the pocket: it' s full of warmth, comfort, and a whole new world of possibility. Megan Giddings is an exquisite novelist, and a writer to watch. * Adrienne Celt, author of End of the World House * Born of a radical imagination and executed with piercing elegance and skill, The Women Could Fly recalls legendary works of dystopian fiction but casts a spell all its own. Giddings is a rare and utterly original voice bridging the speculative and the all-too-real. * Alexandra Kleeman, author of Something New Under the Sun * equal parts magic and revelatory. * LitHub on The Women Could Fly in LitHub' s Most Anticipated Books of 2022 * Megan Giddings has a knack for taking her readers on a wild, suspenseful and thrilling ride. With descriptive setting and peculiar character development, I' m sure this novel is about to give us Dune meets The Salem Witch Trials realness. * Buzzfeed on The Women Could Fly * A book with echoes of Octavia Butler and Shirley Jackson. * Electric Lit on The Women Could Fly * You definitely want to pre-order this one * Nylon Magazine on The Women Could Fly * Megan Giddings is a young writer to watch. * Kirkus Reviews * a dynamite story of a Black woman' s resistance in an oppressive dystopia . . . Giddings ingeniously blends her harrowing parable of an all-powerful patriarchy with insights into racial imbalances . . . This is brilliant. * Publishers Weekly * Like Margaret Atwood' s The Handmaid' s Tale . . . Lakewood compels even as it unsettles. Megan Giddings writes with a scalpel and I' d follow her characters anywhere. -- Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble sizzlingly cinematic * New York Magazine on Lakewood * most impressive. . . powerfully unsettling. . . the start of a promising career, and I hope Giddings will continue to delve into places that many wish to avoid. * Boston Globe on Lakewood * A dystopian novel apt for the times * Pulp on Lakewood * Gidding' s latest is a biting dystopian novel about the limits placed on women' s bodies and the power they have to break them. * www. sheknows. com on The Women Could Fly *
Megan Giddings is an assistant professor at Michigan State University and affiliate faculty at Antioch University' s low-residency MFA. Her first novel, Lakewood, was one of New York Magazine' s top ten books of 2020, an NPR Best Book of 2020, a Michigan Notable book for 2021, a finalist for two NAACP Image Awards, and was a finalist for an LA Times Book Prize in the Ray Bradbury Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculative category. Megan' s writing has received funding and support from the Barbara Deming Foundation and Hedgebrook. She lives in the Midwest.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781035001583
Published: 18 Aug 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Macmillan
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 486g
Pages: 288

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