She in turn countersued the former DJ…for one dollar. The power travels within us as it does in nature.”Īs I read the book, the Taylor Swift trial was unfolding, and I couldn’t help but think of her recent court victory over a male radio DJ who’d lost his job after he’d grabbed her ass during a photo shoot, and then sued the singer for $3 million in damages. It is the shape that lightning forms when it strikes from heaven to earth." This life-and-death ability “grows within us, our inward trees of nerves and blood vessels. For the girls and women who populate her fiercely forged saga, “The shape of power is always the same, it is the shape of a tree. This month we get one from award-winning British novelist Naomi Alderman (author of The Liar's Gospel and Disobedience) in her unsettlingly satisfying new novel, The Power (Little, Brown).
Given how fed up and furious women are feeling in these backward-stepping times, the zeitgeist seems primed for a pointed revenge fantasy. Imagine a world in which women and girls possess the gender privilege and superior physical prowess that men and boys have wielded throughout human history.
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