I loved Tierney right away, especially because her views about everything put her at odds with most of the people in Granger, including most of her fellow grace year girls. and has no interest whatsoever in becoming a wife or mother.
The bulk of the story focuses on Tierney and how she thinks this whole patriarchal society is b.s. Sounds like a fun place to live, right? Yeah, the protagonist of the story, sixteen year old Tierney James, doesn’t think so either. The belief is that this is some kind of a purification ritual and the girls who survive it will come home ready to submit to their husbands or to a life of labor if that is their destiny.
They are all sent away to a remote camp where they must fend for themselves for an entire year. To accomplish this, the town has a ritual where all girls take part in a “grace year” when they turn sixteen. The men of the town believe that this magic must be driven from women of marriageable age before they can be suitable wives. Females are also believed to possess a very dangerous and seductive kind of magic. Or if that isn’t an option, to go and work as laborers. The women’s role is to grow up, become wives, and bear children. This element of the story has a very Handmaid’s Tale feel to it. The men are clearly in charge, while the women have no rights whatsoever. It’s a very dark place and has an almost Puritanical vibe to it.
The world of Granger County grabbed my attention right away. I want to start by talking about the world the story is set in. Sounds crazy and a little creepy, right? Well, buckle up because that’s just the beginning of all of the craziness and creepiness that is to come if you pick up a copy of The Grace Year. Why? Because the society they live in believes that they all possess dangerous magic and must be purified before they are suitable to take their rightful place in society. Kim Liggett’s The Grace Year is a dystopian novel that focuses on what happens when a group of sixteen-year-old girls are banished to a remote camp and forced to fend for themselves for a year. Published by Wednesday Books on October 8, 2019Īmazon | Barnes & Noble | The Book DepositoryįTC Disclosure: I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher via Netgalley.
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