New Books in Science Fiction — Megan Giddings, "The Women Could Fly" (Amistad, 2022)

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Megan Giddings, "The Women Could Fly" (Amistad, 2022)

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The Women Could Fly (Amistad, 2022) is set in our contemporary world with one big difference. A belief in witches gives rise to laws and a culture that encourages women to be married by the age of 30, locking them in a 1950s-style domesticity with the threat that they can be burned at the stake for merely being…

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