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North Carolina, 1960s. Lorraine has it all --the boyfriend, the good grades, the white picket fence, the ambition to become the first woman astronaut. But when she -- the darling girl-next-door -- becomes pregnant, she learns that love is conditional and ambition has its limits. In an effort to hide their daughter's secret shame, her parents send her away to a maternity home, a common solution for "wayward" girls during that time period. Lorraine...
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Doubleday
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[2022]
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Alex Green is a young girl in a world much like ours. But this version of 1950's America is characterized by a significant event: The Mass Dragoning of 1955, when hundreds of thousands of ordinary wives and mothers sprouted wings, scales and talons, left a trail of fiery destruction in their path, and took to the skies. Was it their choice? What will become of those left behind? Why did Alex's beloved Aunt Marla transform but her mother did not? Alex...
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