| Dear book clubbers, March is Women's History Month, and this year, the United States will be celebrating it for the first time with a woman serving as vice president. Just four years ago, we celebrated Women's History Month with a president who was caught on tape bragging about sexually assaulting women and who defeated the first major-party woman candidate for the presidency. So this March in particular is an interesting time to consider institutional power, the ways in which women have historically had very little of it, and what our world might look like if and when that changes. That's why our March book pick is Naomi Alderman's The Power. In The Power, Alderman (who is a protégée of The Handmaid's Tale author Margaret Atwood) imagines a universe in which women en masse develop a genetic mutation that allows them to electrocute people. The balance of power between the sexes abruptly stutters and shifts, and the world begins to reshape itself on a fundamental level. The result is an exploration of the ways we gender power, and an exploration of power itself and all the ways it corrupts and can be abused. We'll have tons to talk about together, and at the end of the month, we'll discuss the book with Alderman herself, live on Zoom. You can RSVP here. Audience questions will be encouraged! | 
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