The Power
Naomi Alderman • 2016
Devastation Rating
dystopian political injustice literary fiction
Our Take
Women develop the ability to deliver electric shocks and the world order inverts. Alderman doesn't write utopia — she writes a mirror, showing how power corrupts identically regardless of who holds it. The novel's structural conceit is devastating: we are reading history, and history is always written by whoever wins.
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