Staff Reviews

Stunning. Pun intended. Alderman has woven a narrative that creeps eerily over the history of a radically changed society. As women all across the world come suddenly, and tumultuously, into the ability to disperse a volatile charge unto captors, offenders, lovers, and victims alike, the fundamental schema of society is irrevocable altered. Through the lens of warriors and watchers experiencing and shaping the upheaval first hand, Alderman holds a mirror up to the influence of power of any kind, for better or worse. With writing as compelling and electric as it's characters, The Power is a must read, equal parts far away and unfathomable, and provocatively, astonishingly present.