Fiction by Kim Liggett
This story is set in a dystopian-society of the misogynistic variety, in the tradition of The Handmaid's Tale or Gather the Daughters, where the entire point of their community's organization seems to be keeping the women under strict control.
The people in this novel believe that girls are born with "magic" that must be "purified" out of them at age sixteen, after which time they can settle into the community to become good little wives and mothers like they should. They send the girls of that age into the wilderness to force them to release their magic, and about half of them die out there.
This is obviously a pretty dark story. It was exciting, but in kind of a terrible way. I'm still not sure if I liked it, but I'll give it the benefit of the doubt here.
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