🇺🇸 What happens when The Handmaid’s Tale meets Pacific rim? The Iron Widow is born as a sci-fi retelling of the story of the only female emperor of Chinese history. It is really difficult in 2021 to find a young adult fantasy that is well written and deals with interesting topics, and, above all, it does so in a non-trivial way. The Iron Widow is all of this and something more.