![]() ![]() ![]() When Margot asks Jocelyn to shock her, the power is awakened in Margot as well. Margot learns that her daughter, Jocelyn, has it. ![]() She learns that only girls seem to have it, and that it comes from a newly developed muscle called a skein. Margot, the mayor of an unnamed city in New England, is trying to learn about the power. Tunde doesn’t understand what has happened-he is both aroused by and afraid of this shock-so he films more women as they use this power, selling the footage to various news networks around the world. Twenty-one-year old Tunde, who lives in Lagos, Nigeria, has his first experience with the power when he play-wrestles with a girl he likes named Enuma, who shocks him. Roxy’s father, a drug kingpin named Bernie Monke, gets revenge on the two men (though Roxy’s older brother Terry is killed in the fight), and Roxy uses her power to kill Primrose, the leader of their gang. Though she is able to hurt the men with this power, it is not enough to stop them from knocking Roxy unconscious and murdering her mother. Roxy tries to fight the men and discovers that she can produce an electrostatic shock using only her hands. Two men break into fourteen-year-old Roxy’s home in London while she and Roxy’s mother are inside. The Power is introduced with a letter: author Neil Adam Armon writes a letter to fellow author Naomi Alderman, thanking her profusely for reading his book, explaining that it is “not quite history, not quite a novel.” What follows is the novel’s text. ![]()
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