“Once you’ve seen it happen,” says a gray-faced woman on TV. “I saw a girl in the park doing that to a boy for no reason, he was bleeding from the eyes. The eyes. Once you’ve seen that happen, no mom would let her boys out of her sight.”
而这就是英国女性小说奖（THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION）获奖作品、奥巴马2017年度推荐书籍（BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017）、反乌托邦小说The Power的开篇。作为一部女权主义小说，它被誉为“我们这个时代的《使女的故事》”。