![]() ![]() They embark on this year-long banishment fearing poachers and the elements, but they soon learn that those are the least of their worries. Each year, every sixteen-year-old girl is sent into the forest to release her magic and return purified, ready for marriage or work in the fields. The book follows a girl named Tierney James who lives in Garner County, a place that is built on the antiquated rules of a woman’s place to an extreme. It is visceral and unlovely and that is what makes it so engrossing it’s not the gore itself that makes it fascinating, but the fact that it does not balk from or censor the ugly parts of the story. Kim Liggett’s The Grace Year is reminiscent of a brutally feminine Lord of the Flies. Cumulatively, it took me about 4 hours to finish this 404 page book and when I’d finished, I wanted to read it again. When I got home, I laid in my bed despite the mountain of homework I hadn’t yet started chipping away at and didn’t get up until I’d finished it. ![]() I read The Grace Year in the car on the way home from visiting colleges in North Carolina. Content Warnings: lynching, gendered violence, physical violence, gore, pregnancy + childbirth (with complications), starvation, drugging ![]()
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