NP: Naomi Alderman's The Power

[Richard Romeo]

I enjoyed it though it’s a hard read at times (as a guy) which I guess is the point.
I like the way she structured the story



> On Jan 24, 2018, at 6:17 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'm a third of the way into this glorious page-turner called The Power
> and was pleased to note that writer Naomi Alderman conversed with
> Ursula Le Guin while developing it (Margaret Atwood and Karen Joy
> Fowler, too).
> It begins with 15-year-old girls the world over discovering they have
> this ability to cause terrible pain and even death, and they quickly
> start teaching older women the power as well. In very short order the
> power dynamics of sex and gender are completely upended and the book
> very smartly teases out the implications. The section in which women
> storm the streets of Riyadh kept me reading late into the evevning
> last night and the book overall is that wonderful mix of genre
> satisfaction and fine intellectual playfulness.
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