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Women Talking. "Women Talking" follows a group of women in an isolated religious colony as they figure out how they might move forward to build a better world for themselves and their children. Stay and fight or leave. They will not do nothing. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started.
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Dec 23, 2022 · The real-life facts are beyond horrifying. Between 2005 and 2009, 150 women and young girls were drugged and then raped by men in their secluded Mennonite community in Bolivia. The women would wake up having no idea what happened, but seeing blood on their sheets and legs, or noticing their underwear was missing.
About Miriam Toews. Miriam Toews is the author of seven bestselling novels: Women Talking, All My Puny Sorrows, Irma Voth, The Flying Troutmans, A Complicated Kindness, A Boy of Good Breeding, and Summer of My Amazing Luck, and one work of non-fiction, Swing Low: A Life. She is a winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the Libris ...
Aug 21, 2018 · Acerbic, funny, tender, sorrowful and wise, Women Talking is composed of equal parts humane love and deep anger. It is award-winning writer Miriam Toews' most astonishing novel to date, containing within its two short days and hayloft setting an expansive, timeless universe of thinking and feeling about women--and men--in our contemporary world.
The intelligence on display in Women Talking is as ferocious as it is warm.” —NPR "This beautiful battle cry of a novel is in urgent conversation with the contemporary moment." ― Financial Times “Toews proves brilliant at conveying character and relationships through dialogue, delineating each woman with loving precision. . . .
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Sarah Polley’s calling card is a goodwill toward flaw, but her films are sometimes undone by a tendency to over-explain. The women of an isolated religious colony reveal a shocking secret about the colony’s men. They gather in a barn to discuss how they might move forward together to build a better world for themselves and their children.
Based on actual events that happened between 2005 and 2009 in a remote Mennonite community where more than 100 girls and women were drugged unconscious and assaulted in the night by what they were told (by the men of the colony) were "ghosts" or "demons", Miriam Toews' bold and affecting novel Women Talking is an imagined response to these real ...
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