![]() The odder things become, the more Alex is forced to pretend she doesn't see what she sees. Her mother begins obsessively weaving knots, and her parents cut off Alex's friendship with a neighbor girl, who also disappears. Beatrice is adopted as Alex's "sister," and any mention of her aunt or dragons is forbidden. Then Aunt Marla disappears during a "mass dragoning" of nearly 650,000 women, leaving a baby behind. She had a way of occupying a room that felt dangerous," Alex reflects. I found her thrilling, but terrifying too. Sometimes she laughed louder than any man I knew. She's a mechanic who works in a body shop - a large woman who takes up space and stares down men who cross her. These isolated eruptions are hushed up, suppressed by the local news media and by police and fire crews that respond to the "incidents." Scientists who seek answers to the phenomenon are called in for questioning and blackballed from their universities.Īunt Marla is a breath of fresh air in this stifling environment. ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, alarming events are happening in her community, as women spontaneously "dragon," erupting in a conflagration that sometimes levels buildings. Or why her father disappears into his work, sometimes not returning home at night. No one will tell her why her mother disappears for months, and her unmarried Aunt Marla moves in to take care of the family. ![]()
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