In 'The Power,' Women Develop A Weapon That Changes Everything
Naomi Alderman's new novel imagines a world in which women suddenly pose a physical threat to men. Alderman says it was gratifying to imagine how characters might use that power to fight back.
It seems fitting that 2017 has been bookended by two novels about women and power. When the year began, Margaret Atwood's , which depicts a future where women are stripped of all power, began making its way . As 2017 draws to a close, another dystopian novel has made it onto some prominent top ten lists: Naomi Alderman's . It imagines a world in which women discover they have a weapon that makes them physically threatening to men — and that weapon
