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  1. 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
  2. Jan 20, 2023 · Eight women come together in a hayloft to decide what's next after their religious colony is devastated by sexual violence. Sarah Polley adapted Miriam Toews' novel, which was drawn from true...

  3. 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.

    • Miriam Toews
  4. Apr 2, 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
  5. 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...

  6. Apr 10, 2019 · Women Talking” is a wry, freewheeling novel of ideas that touches on the nature of evil, questions of free will, collective responsibility, cultural determinism and, above all, forgiveness.

  7. Sep 10, 2018 · A chilling tale of systematic subjugation in a rural religious colony, Miriam Toews ’s new novel sounds like another addition to the current wave of feminist dystopias that have emerged...

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