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12: The Power

February 3, 2018 by bonnie Leave a Comment

I’ve heard a ton of buzz about this book. One of my dear friends had read and raved about this book, and it made President Obama’s list of best books for 2017, alongside my book of the year, Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing. I had high hopes. The premise intrigued me. What would we do in a world where women had all the power and the tables were turned on the class and power dynamic? The problem starts when you look at a metaphor–power–and turn […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Bailey Prize, bonnie, naomi alderman

bonnie's CBR10 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Bailey Prize, bonnie, naomi alderman ·
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