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<p style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">List members in the mood for a modernist scavenger hunt will enjoy Naomi Alderman's most recent novel, a brilliant work of speculative fiction that imagines a future world in which girls' sudden ability
to produce electric shocks results in a complete inversion of sexual hierarchies. A scan reveals allusions at least to Conrad and Woolf, including the following passage: "A fragment of something he read a long time ago floats through his mind. A flattering
looking-glass. He has to be a flattering mirror for her, reflecting her at twice her ordinary size, making her seem to herself to be strong enough to do this thing . . ."</p>
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<p style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The same character later thinks, "'This also has been one of the dark places of the earth.'"</p>
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<p style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Best to you all, with the hope that you're in bright places.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Todd</p>
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<div class="PlainText">Dr. Todd Avery<br>
Associate Professor of English<br>
Coordinator, Online English B.A. Program<br>
NCAA Faculty Athletics Representative</div>
<div class="PlainText">University of Massachusetts Lowell<br>
O'Leary Library 481<br>
61 Wilder Street<br>
Lowell, MA 01854<br>
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