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     • Miriam Toews’s novel is based on a true story of the repeated assaults of women within a Mennonite community and their decision to do something about it.
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   Is Miriam Toews based on a true story?

   • This story was produced for radio by Samantha Balaban and Evie Stone, and adapted for the Web by Petra Mayer. Miriam Toews' new novel is based on an awful true story: The drugging and rape of women in a Mennonite colony in Bolivia. Toews says she wanted to show the women as real humans, not isolated cultists.

   Interview: Miriam Toews, Author Of 'Women Talking' : NPR

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   Who is Miriam Toews?

   • Novelist Miriam Toews possesses a unique insight into the survivors’ lives. Toews was raised Mennonite in Manitoba, Canada, and has written multiple books about her background. 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.

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   Did Miriam Toews dream about her sister's death?

   • Arden Wray for The New York Times TORONTO — Miriam Toews woke up the other night, her heart racing. She wasn’t having another dream about her sister’s violent death, or her father’s, or the rapes suffered by the women at the center of her latest book, “Women Talking,” to be released April 2 in the United States.

   Miriam Toews’s Mennonite Conscience - The New York Times

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   Is women talking based on a true story?

   • Editor's note: This story concerns sexual violence Miriam Toews' new book Women Talking is based on a ghastly true story — here's the opening sentence: "Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote Mennonite colony in Bolivia, many girls and women would wake in the morning feeling drowsy and in pain, having been attacked in the night."

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   Sep 14, 2022 · Here’s what to know about the true story behind the film—which hits theaters Dec. 2—the novel it’s based on, and how Polley’s movie both adheres to and puts a new spin on its inspiration.

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   Mar 31, 2019 · Miriam Toews' new novel is based on an awful true story: The drugging and rape of women in a Mennonite colony in Bolivia. Toews says she wanted to show the women as real humans, not isolated...

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   Feb 10, 2023 · The direct source material for Women Talking is a 2018 novel of the same name, by Canadian author Miriam Toews. Toews – inspired by the story of the Manitoba Colony – described her book...

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   Jan 24, 2023 · The Polley-directed film Women Talking — starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, and Frances McDormand, to name a few — was actually adapted from the novel of the same name by Miriam Toews, a ...

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   Feb 7, 2023 · It is based on a novel by Miriam Toews, a Canadian author who grew up in a Mennonite family. But before the book and the film, there was a real community where women woke up with foggy...

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   Mar 12, 2023 · Women Talking is based on a true story, one that was fictionalized by author Miriam Toews. Toews herself was born in a Mennonite community in Canada; she left when she turned 18.

10. www.nytimes.com › 2019/03/28 › booksMiriam Toews’s Mennonite Conscience - The New York Times

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    Mar 28, 2019 · It is based on the real-life horror story of women in an ultraconservative Mennonite colony in Bolivia, who woke up to headaches, bloodied sheets, and bruised bodies. Many believed they’d been...