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Toews' novel centers on the secret meetings of eight Mennonite women who, on behalf of the other women in the colony, must decide how to react to these traumatic events. They have only 48 hours before the colony men, who are away to post bail for the rapists, return.
Sep 14, 2022 · Women Talking, her 7th novel, uses the horrific rapes as the basis for an explanation of how women speak when they are living in a place that denies them that right. It’s an austere novel...
Apr 6, 2019 · The Canadian writer Miriam Toews opens her astonishing eighth novel, Women Talking, with a matter-of-fact Author's Note. Between 2005 and 2009, she explains, eight men in a remote Mennonite...
Aug 21, 2018 · Women Talking tells the story of eight women's conversation as they decide what to do next: do nothing, stay and fight, or leave. Meeting in a hay loft, the women discuss the pros and cons of each option exploring such topics as healing, forgiveness, how they're perceived (less than animals), and their lack of education and inability to read.
Aug 21, 2018 · In Women Talking, Miriam Toews imagines what the women's conversation might have been after learning the truth about their abusers. It is set over a couple of nights, and details their discussion.
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Mar 3, 2020 · Women Talking tells the story of eight women's conversation as they decide what to do next: do nothing, stay and fight, or leave. Meeting in a hay loft, the women discuss the pros and cons of each option exploring such topics as healing, forgiveness, how they're perceived (less than animals), and their lack of education and inability to read.
- Miriam Toews
Jan 1, 2019 · WOMEN TALKING is based on a real historical event where Mennonite men and older boys were raping their women. In Miriam Toews novel, eight of them are arrested after one of the women stays up waiting for one of them to break in and try to drug her.
- Miriam Toews
Based on real events and told through the “minutes” of the women's all-female symposium, Toews's masterful novel uses wry, politically engaged humor to relate this tale of women claiming their own power to decide.
