Women talking : a novel / Miriam Toews.
One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony, has been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming to punish them for their sins. Now that the women have learned they were in fact drugged and attacked by a group of men from their own community, they are determined to protect themselves and their daughters from future harm. While the men of the colony are off in the city, attempting to raise enough money to bail out the rapists and bring them home, these women--all illiterate, without any knowledge of the world outside their community and unable even to speak the language of the country they live in--have very little time to make a choice: Should they stay in the only world they've ever known or should they dare to escape? Told through the "minutes" of the women's all-female symposium, Women Talking is a beloved Miriam Toews classic, a masterful tale of women claiming the power to decide. -- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781635574340
- ISBN: 163557434X
- Physical Description: 216 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published: Canada : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. |
Awards Note: | The New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2019. |
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Subject: | Man-woman relationships > Fiction. Rape > Fiction. Mennonites > Fiction. Demonology > Fiction. Bolivia > Fiction. |
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- 10 of 11 copies available at SPARK Libraries.
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Albright Memorial Library | FICTION TOEWS (Text) | 50686016288370 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Emmaus Public Library | FIC TOEWS, MIRIAM (Text) | 36446002086679 | Adult Recent Reads | Checked Out | 05/10/2024 |
FD Campbell Memorial Library | FIC TOE (Text) | 32002000356343 | FDCM Fiction | Available | - |
Galeton Public Library | F TOE (Text) | 30243000378125 | Stacks | Available | - |
Gettysburg Library | FIC TOEWS MIRIAM (Text) | 35740635923246 | Fiction | Available | - |
Indian Valley Public Library | Fiction Toews (Text) | 39427103727640 | Fiction Room: Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Meyersdale Public Library | FIC TOEWS (Text) | 30512005405236 | MEYM Fiction | Available | - |
Parkland Community Library | F TOE (Text) | 34422007383207 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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This item was purchased in loving memory of Lucy Riebling by the Valley Green Book Club.
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Tunkhannock Public Library | F TOE (Text) | 31650000620505 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |