“Nobody talks about the year of grace. It's forbidden. We supposedly have the power to attract men and drive wives mad with jealousy. Our skin would release the pure essence of youth. This is why we are banished in the year of our sixteenth birthday: our magic must dissipate in nature."
But we do not come back unscathed from the year of grace. If we come back.
A feminist dystopia at the crossroads of The Scarlet Handmaiden, Her Majesty of the Flies and Hunger Games.
From 14 yo
