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The Grace Year — the Feminist Dystopian Novel That Had Me up All Night and Thinking for Days Afterwards.
YA is not my genre of choice, but this time, I found my match.
Lately, I have needed distraction and my chosen vice books, piles and piles of them. I don’t really have the brain space for real grown-up books, so I went in for a YA novel!
Recently I was handed a book by a friend, and she said: “Here’s one you might like, it's Dystopian though, you gotta be in the mood for it”.
Boy, was I in the mood. I put the kids to bed and settled down around 9:30 pm and let's say I didn’t move at all until I had turned the last page at 4:30 in the morning. This was a terrible idea: I had work the next day, and I was little more than a zombie.
The book(written by author Kim Liggett in 2019) opens with our protagonist Tierney James, a feisty, intelligent young lady on her 16th year. She seems to live in a post-apocalyptic Middle America: the conservative religiosity runs real true and deep. In this town, women come in three flavours: wives, whores and nobodies in the fields. Women are said to come into…
