We’d all felt that way at one time or another. We all had to shrug when he said he felt unsafe walking down the street. He stayed longer than he should have, as happens to journalists today. He was so used to male privilege that he assumed he would be OK and evade the rules. Tunde’s classic observer view was great and a lot of us liked him. If it was divine intervention, did Ally really believe in what she was doing? Or was she enjoying a way to manipulate the system and grow into her power?
Some wondered if the voice she heard was a coping mechanism, a way of dealing with the trauma she faced in foster care. That ended up being her downfall.Īlly raised a lot of questions for us. She had mercy on her father when we suspected he would not have had the same.
Roxy was very powerful but she still had the ‘feminine’ quality of mercy.
It was a nice touch for her to include this.Įach of the different speakers gave us a unique perspective on the changes. Jocelyn’s boyfriend at one point has some small power in a skein and he’s ostracized and criticized by both men and women for not belonging and for thinking he could belong. We pointed out that Alderman did address transgender people as it applies to this new world. Some of our readers felt this was just what one should expect with war and such radical change in a country. Yet at another point in the book, someone was using an iPad. One of the artifacts was an Apple device (bitten fruit) and how it was unknown what that thing was. They seemed a bit out of place in the book and one reader noticed an inconsistency. The other structural thing that we talked about was the artifacts. Naomi seemed very critical and heavy-handed, but we wondered if this was criticism because she’s a woman or because she was honestly heavy-handed. We thought they may have been more effective if they’d been scattered throughout the novel instead of only at the beginning and end. The letters that began and ended the novel were a bit out of place and confusing.
She won the Baily’s Women’s Prize for Fiction for this book. She mainly writes science fiction and is friends with Margaret Atwood. It seems we were all a mixed bag on this one.ĭespite having so many American characters, the writer is British. It was very OK for me, nothing outstanding and nothing terrible. My book club met last week to talk about a book I didn’t particularly like, The Power by Naomi Alderman.
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