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Plot. Women Talking opens with a note from the author in which she describes her novel as both "a reaction through fiction" to true-life events and "an act of female imagination." The true-life events Toews refers to took place in the Manitoba Colony, a remote Mennonite community in Bolivia.
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. "I felt I...
Mar 31, 2019 · 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...
Feb 7, 2023 · Today on Front Burner, a series of sexual assaults at a Mennonite Colony in Bolivia is the inspiration behind Sarah Polley’s new film Women Talking. We’ll hear the real story from a...
Apr 2, 2019 · 'Women Talking' Turns Painful 'Ghost Rape' Story to Fiction | TIME. Entertainment. Books. A Horrific True Story of Rape in a Religious Colony Becomes Thought-Provoking Fiction. 4 minute...
Apr 10, 2019 · April 10, 2019. WOMEN TALKING. By Miriam Toews. Between 2005 and 2009 in an isolated Mennonite colony in Bolivia, women and girls (as young as 3) regularly woke up groggy and bruised, their...
Jan 20, 2023 · Miriam Toews' novel Women Talking is drawn from events that came to light in a Bolivian Mennonite colony in 2009, when a group of men was charged with raping more than 100 girls and women in...
