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I felt ashamed in ways that I couldn’t explain. Yet as she grows up, it seems the world is keeping a huge secret, where there are holes in so many families that are not discussed. At its centre is a coming of age story, starting when she is four, when it might be expected that people don’t tell her everything. The narrative is told in a mix of Alex’s memoirs and snippets from other publications, where we learn more about the Mass Dragoning and its effect on society. Mentioning dragons was akin to swearing or talking about, god forbid, periods. Being a dragon was a feminine thing and feminine things were to be kept to oneself. Once the US was convinced that it was not caused by a secret Soviet weapon, it became taboo to talk about. When We Were Dragons is such a unique story, applying McCarthyism and the House Committee on Un-American Activities to spontaneous change of women into dragons. But on the day of the Mass Dragoning of 1955, her capable, vivacious aunt ceased to exist.Ī dragon blinked on the dance floor. Alex loved her Aunt Marla, and her cousin Beatrice even more so. Indeed, no one would speak about dragons at all. She never saw the woman again, and no one would speak to her about it. The largest in history.Īlex Green was four years old when she saw her first dragon, sat in her neighbour’s garden exactly where her neighbour used to sit. On April 25, 1955, between the hours of 11:45 am and 2:30 pm central time, 642,987 American women-wives and mothers, all-became dragons. As if that isn’t complicated enough, there are new players to contend with. In the book, Fergus has left his wife, Marsali, behind in Jamaica as she is expecting their first child we already know from Episode 1 that the TV show deviates from this, with Marsali accompanying them along for the ride and revealing her pregnancy. Unlike previous installments of Diana Gabaldon's book series, most of Drums of Autumn is set in the couple’s home area, and it's actually quite cute to see Jamie and Claire settle into domestic bliss. We first see them traveling to Charleston and Wilmington, before they eventually settle in North Carolina. Drums of Autumn picks up with Claire, Jamie, Ian, and Fergus attempting to start a new life in the American colonies. It's a less than ideal situation, though they're probably just happy to be out of Scotland and able to put their dangerous years in Paris and Jamaica behind them. Never a show that shies away from a cliffhanger, the end of Season 3 saw heroine Claire Fraser and her partner Jamie stranded on the Georgia coastline following a shipwreck in 1766. And if Outlander Season 4 follows the book ending for Drums Of Autumn, we're in for an explosive ride. After almost a year-long wait, Outlander is finally back. |