Allie is a girl who is raped by her foster father and kills him with her powers before taking refuge in a convent. Margot is a mayor in Wisconsin who discovers her daughter Jocelyn is also developing these powers. Tunde is an aspiring journalist in Nigeria who starts to film women using their emerging power and publish it online. She manages to defend herself, injuring one attacker, but another beats her up and kills her mother. Roxy is an English teenager whose mother is attacked. Five thousand years earlier (in our current time), men dominated society, until stories began to emerge of women who possessed an electrical power used first for self-defense, and eventually to attack, torture, even kill. In a matriarchal society, a gushing male writer writes to an influential author about his fictional account of how the matriarchy came to be. This historical fiction chronicles the experiences of Allie, Roxy, Margot, Jocelyn, and Tunde, as they navigate their rapidly changing world. The manuscript is submitted by Neil Adam Armon to another author named Naomi, approximately five thousand years after the power emerges and revolution reassembles the world into a matriarchy. The Power is a book within a book: a manuscript of an imagined history of the tumultuous era during which women across the world developed and shared the power to emit electricity from their hands. The book was also named by The New York Times as one of the 10 Best Books of 2017. In June 2017, The Power won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Its central premise is women developing the ability to release electrical jolts from their fingers, thus leading them to become the dominant sex.
The Power is a 2016 science fiction novel by the British writer Naomi Alderman.
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