<p><b>&quot;Megan Giddings's prose is brimming with wonder. <i>The Women Could Fly</i> is a candid appraisal of grief, inheritance, and the merits of unruliness.&quot; - Raven Leilani</b><br><br><b>Reminiscent of the works of Margaret Atwood, Deborah Harkness, and Octavia E. Butler, <i>The Women Could Fly </i>is a feminist speculative novel that speaks to our times. A piercing dystopian tale about the unbreakable bond between a young woman and her absent mother, set in a world in which magic is real and single women are closely monitored in case they are shown to be witches . . .</b><br><br>Josephine Thomas has heard every conceivable theory about her mother&rsquo;s disappearance. That she was kidnapped. Murdered. That she took on a new identity to start a new family. That she was a witch. This is the most worrying charge, because in a world where witches are real, peculiar behaviour raises suspicions and a woman &ndash; especially a Black woman &ndash; can find herself on trial for witchcraft.<br><br>But fourteen years have passed since her mother&rsquo;s disappearance, and now Jo is finally ready to let go of the past. Yet her future is in doubt. The State mandates that all women marry by the age of thirty &ndash; or enrol in a registry that allows them to be monitored, effectively forfeiting their autonomy. At twenty-eight, Jo is ambivalent about marriage. With her ability to control her life on the line, she feels as if she has never understood her mother more. When she&rsquo;s offered the opportunity to honour one last request from her mother&rsquo;s will, Jo leaves her regular life to feel connected to her one last time.<br><br><b>In this powerful and timely novel, Megan Giddings explores the limits women face &ndash; and the powers they have to transgress and transcend them.</b><br><br><b>'It can be tempting to read <i>The Women Could Fly</i>, which comes in the shadow of the recent Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, and call the book timely. But the relationship at the heart of this novel &mdash; between Jo and her mercurial mother &mdash; is much closer to timeless.' - <i>The New York Times</i></b></p>