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Liggett, Kim. THE GRACE YEAR New York : Wednesday Books, 2019. IL YA ISBN 9781250145444 2 booktalks |
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Booktalk #1 The Grace Year, when every girl who has reached her sixteenth year travels to a remote location in the forest beyond the outskirts to find her magic. It sounds like the beginning of a fairy tale, but in Garner County the Grace Year is a time of terror, violence, and betrayal, as girls rid themselves of their magic to become proper docile wives and workers. Not all of them will return, and not all who return will be unscathed. Tierney James isn’t sure it has to be this way. When her turn comes, Tierney enters the Grace Year determined to survive and uncover the dark and secret past of previous Grace Years. Grisly secrets about what happens on the fringe of civilization pervade the village, the outskirts, and the woods. If Tierney has anything to do with it, the people of Garner County will start to take control of their own fates and live the way they choose. (Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award 2020-2021) Booktalk #2 Don’t be fooled by the pink cover; this story is not for the faint-of-heart. This gritty tale is set in a misogynistic society where, upon turning 16, all girls are banished from the village for a “grace year” to “release their magic” before they can return home to be married off to the men who choose them. Head-strong Tierney has every reason to dread this year: girls never return the same, and many never return at all. Is it the poachers in the woods, hunting the girls to steal their magic? Or are these brutalities inflicted by the girls themselves? With hints of The Hunger Games, The Handmaid’s Tale, and Lord of the Flies woven throughout, this savage, action-packed story will haunt you. (Florida Teen Reads nominees 2021) |
| SUBJECTS: Sex role -- Fiction. Community life -- Fiction. Survival -- Fiction. Romance fiction. |
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