quotMegan Giddingss prose is brimming with wonder. The Women Could Fly is a candid appraisal of grief, inheritance, and the merits of unruliness.quot Raven LeilaniReminiscent of the works of Margaret Atwood, Deborah Harkness, and Octavia E. Butler, The Women Could Fly is a feminist speculative novel that speaks to our times. A piercing dystopian tale about the unbreakable bond between a young woman and her absent mother, set in a world in which magic is real and single women are closely monitored in case they are shown to be witches . . .Josephine Thomas has heard every conceivable theory about her motherrsquos 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 ndash especially a Black woman ndash can find herself on trial for witchcraft.But fourteen years have passed since her motherrsquos 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 ndash or enrol in a registry that allows them to be monitored, effectively forfeiting their autonomy. At twentyeight, Jo is ambivalent about marriage. With her ability to control her life on the line, she feels as if she has never understood her mother more. When shersquos offered the opportunity to honour one last request from her...

Binding: Hardcover;288 pages; Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Int Ltd - MDL; Classification: FA; Weight: 606 g; Dimensions: 178 x 466 x 30

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