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Community Book Club: The Power by Naomi Alderman

Sun, Apr 14

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Cafe con Libros

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Community Book Club: The Power by Naomi Alderman
Community Book Club: The Power by Naomi Alderman

Time & Location

Apr 14, 2019, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Cafe con Libros, 724 Prospect Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11216, USA

About the Event

My new novel, The Power, is published by Penguin on 27th October 2016. It's a piece of feminist science fiction - or speculative fiction, or fiction about a fictional thing rather than a real thing (curious concept). In the novel, very suddenly almost all the women in the world develop the power to electrocute people at will. Anything from a tiny tingle all the way to full electro-death. And then everything is different.

The novel follows four main characters as they pick their way across this changed world. There's Roxy, the daughter of a London crime family with three older brothers; she was never supposed to take over the family business but she starts to have other ideas. There's Tunde, a young journalism student in Lagos, who sees that the revolution needs documenting, and gets himself into some dicey situations trying to be the one to do it. There's…

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