Exploring darkness, power, and revolution, Grace Year by Kim Liggett is a fierce read, haunting and
Exploring darkness, power, and revolution, Grace Year by Kim Liggett is a fierce read, haunting and revelatory.Lord of the Flies by way of Handmaid’s Tale, this girl power dystopian is set in a patriarchal world of oppression and obedience. At age 16, the girls of Garner County are taken to the woods for a Grace Year, filled with hardships, delusions, alliances and revelations, and one that not all of them will survive. Those who do will marry, and know that their daughters will one day experience the same physical demands and psychological torture they have endured. But Tierney rebels against the cycle, the insidious influence of the self-appointed leader Keirsten, and the lies they have all been told. -- source link