Set in Taylor Jenkins Reid’s beloved universe, we follow Carrie Soto - the infamous tennis player who made an appearance in Malibu Rising - throughout her successful career beginning when she was a young child. It's an intriguing read, and the audiobook narrated by Angel Pean is well done. The Women Could Fly offers a much more nuanced and, at times, searingly realistic glimpse into what a future could look like when women are no longer allowed their autonomy. Too many feminist dystopian novels are told through a white female, cishet perspective. What Jo finds on the island swings open the door to the magical and what might be possible without men legislating women's bodies. How can a woman love and marry a man when society will forever consider her indebted to and lesser than her husband? When Jo and her father finally officially declare Jo's mother dead, a lawyer informs Jo that to claim her inheritance, she must journey to a hidden island and collect apples there. Despite this looming threat, Jo feels ambivalent about the idea of marriage.
The taint of her mother's suspected witchcraft has followed Jo into her adulthood, and now, unless she marries a man by her 30th birthday, she'll be treated as a witch and monitored by the government.
Jo is a biracial (Black and white), bisexual woman whose mother disappeared when she was a child and is presumed dead. Men legislate women's lives to protect them from the sin of witchcraft. It takes place in contemporary America with one big difference: Witches are real.
This prescient dystopian novel feels like it was written in the wake of the overturning of Roe v.
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