What if your words were a crime, but your silence was a death sentence?
In New North, women are forbidden to read. Andra has spent her whole life hiding the fact that she can do far more than that. She can write events into existence. Her words do not just describe reality. They create it.
When the wrong people discover what she can do, Andra is faced with an impossible choice. Stay hidden and survive. Or use her power and risk everything to free the women around her.
She was never supposed to be a revolutionary. But revolutions are not started by the people who feel ready.
A Sarton Women's Literary Award finalist. Hailed by the Huffington Post as part dystopian fiction, part feminist manifesto. For readers of Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, and Tamora Pierce.
P.O.W.ER is the story of what happens when one young woman stops hiding and starts writing the world she wants to live in.
Over the years, Lisa A. Kramer (MFA, PhD) discovered the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration as a tool for strengthening all aspects of society. As an educator, theatre director, creativity facilitator, Gateless writing instructor, author, and speaker she built a career on helping others access their inner creative power in order to discover new approaches toward making this a more just, equitable world.
As a recovering academic, Dr. Kramer strives to find relatable and creative ways to share knowledge and understanding with broader audiences both in person and virtually. She does this through Spark Collaborative, a virtual community built so support the creativity in all of us.
Her book Creative Collaborations Through Inclusive Theatre and Community Based Learning won the American Alliance for Theatre Education Distinguished Book Award (2018). Her debut novel P.O.W.er was a finalist for the Sarton Literary Price in Contemporary Fiction.
At the center of this book is the question of who holds power, how people choose to use power, and what happens when power has become corrupted.
I believe this question is also central to the times we live in.
Book Excerpt
P.O.W.ER
“You started something. You inspired me to create messages that would reach women all over New North. You showed me the possibilities that came from women having strength and power that men could not conceive. You made me see the potential of bringing people together to fight against the inequities and cruelty of Sandovar’s rule. It worked. Women have discovered their abilities and are coming forward to strengthen one another. Men have recognized Sandovar’s corruption and the need to join forces with women, rather than keep us under control. You could have been a part of that, but you chose to fight for only one person. You chose power for power’s sake.”
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