NP: Naomi Alderman's The Power

[Mark Kohut]

The huge bestselling success of this book--my hidden premise being a book's sale is rarely just related to its quality; in fact is seldom related to it, --
Is part of the huge cultural ongoing next wave of female empowerment and self-empowerment.

 It's all around us, maybe most visible in the largest total marches around the US--some outside the US too--in the history of The Republic. 

And the voices to try to end, and bring to justice the power dominance that is most sexual harassment , is thrilling. 

Yes, more women should read Pynchon, (and join the Plist), a feminist and profound understander of every kind of dominance. 





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> On Jan 24, 2018, at 7:27 PM, Richard Romeo <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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
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>> 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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