Tierney the grace year5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() The feminist dread of all the pitfalls of being a young woman is intensified by putting a bunch of adolescents together with zero supervision: Absolute carnage ensues. ![]() Many reviews will say that this book is the intersection of The Handmaids Tale and The Lord of the Flies and you know what, they are absolutely right. In this world where women are treated as little more than possessions, Tierney dreams of either fading to mediocrity or rising to change the world. Nobody speaks of the Grace Year, but the effects are hinted at, many young women who embark never return, and sometimes they do in ways they would rather not. Women are said to come into their aphrodisiac “Magic” in their 16th year and thus are banished together on a pilgrimage of sorts to drain it out (aka break their spirits), cue, “The Grace year”. In this town, women come in three flavours: wives, whores and nobodies in the fields. She seems to live in a post-apocalyptic Middle America: the conservative religiosity runs real true and deep. ![]() The book(written by author Kim Liggett in 2019) opens with our protagonist Tierney James, a feisty, intelligent young lady on her 16th year. ![]()
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