Kim Liggett Knihy

The resistance starts here... No one speaks of the grace year. It's forbidden. We're told we have the power to lure grown men from their beds, make boys lose their minds, and drive the wives mad with jealousy. That's why we're banished for our sixteenth year, to release our magic into the wild before we're allowed to return to civilization. But I don't feel powerful. I don't feel magical. Tierney James lives in an isolated village where girls are banished at sixteen to the northern forest to brave the wilderness - and each other - for a year. They must rid themselves of their dangerous magic before returning purified and ready to marry - if they're lucky. It is forbidden to speak of the grace year, but even so every girl knows that the coming year will change them - if they survive it... The Grace Year is The Handmaid's Tale meets Lord of the Flies - a page-turning feminist dystopia about a young woman trapped in an oppressive society, fighting to take control of her own life.

"Seventeen-year-old Ash Larkin finds out her family is involved in a centuries-old saga of love and murder, alchemy and immortality when she follows her mother to an isolated settlement in the cornfields of Kansas"-- Provided by publisher

Entre el cuento de la criada y El señor de las moscas, esta narración distópica explora la psique de adolescentes en una teocracia represiva. En el condado de Garner, las niñas crecen convencidas de que al alcanzar la adolescencia, su piel exhala una esencia de juventud capaz de seducir a los hombres y provocar celos en las mujeres. Para purificar esa magia y regresar listas para el matrimonio, son expulsadas y confinadas en la naturaleza durante un año. Sin embargo, no todas regresan. En un lugar donde están prohibidos los sueños y cualquier forma de privacidad, Tierney James, una joven de dieciséis años, anhela una sociedad sin disputas. A medida que se acerca su año de gracia, descubre que el mayor peligro no proviene de la naturaleza salvaje o de cazadores furtivos, sino de la rivalidad entre ellas. Con prosa afilada y realismo descarnado, la obra examina las complejas y tortuosas relaciones entre jóvenes y las difíciles decisiones que deben tomar para convertirse en mujeres.