The power
Subtitle: a novel
By: Naomi Alderman
Edition: First North American edition.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780316547611
Subjects: Women; Great powers; Teenage girls; Fiction
Description: When a new force takes hold of the world, people from different areas of life are forced to cross paths in an alternate reality that gives women and teenage girls immense physical power that can cause pain and death.

A rich Nigerian boy; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. When a vital new force takes root and flourishes, their lives converge with devastating effect. Teenage girls and women now have immense physical power-- they can cause agonizing pain and even death. And everything changes.