The Power

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

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Before You Read

Summary

Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Prologue-“Ten Years to Go”

“Nine Years to Go”-“Eight Years to Go”

“Six Years to Go”-“Five Years to Go”

“One Year”-“Can’t Be More Than Seven Months Left”

“Here It Comes”-Epilogue

Character Analysis

Themes

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Important Quotes

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Discussion Questions

Essay Topics

Explore the definition of gender in the novel. Is gender an authentic distinction, a social convention, or an accident of biology. Is Neil Adam Armon right when he says, “Gender is a shell game. What is a man? Whatever a woman isn’t. What is a woman? Whatever a man is not”?

Research frame narratives. Why put the frame in at all? What is gained or lost by introducing the interplay between the male historian and the female editor?

Compare and contrast Roxy with and without the skein. Which character is more powerful?