'The Power' by Naomi Alderman

While walking the Chester Valley Trail (3 miles) we will discuss The Power by Naomi Alderman (science fiction, 386 pages, 12 hrs audio).

Park at the Penn Medicine Valley Forge parking lot, 1001 Chesterbrook Blvd, Berwyn, PA. Meet at the trailhead. In the event of rain, we will meet at the trailhead, and then decide on moving indoors.

In this stunning bestseller praised as "our era's Handmaid's Tale," a fierce new power has emerged—and only women have it.

The Power is a book within a book: a manuscript of an imagined history of the tumultuous 21st century period – now 5,000 years in the past – during which womankind became the dominant gender after developing and sharing the power to emit electricity from their hands.

The novel was adapted into a nine-episode Amazon Prime Video television series in 2023.