Miriam Toews "Women Talking"
Between 2005 and 2009,
in a remote Mennonite colony, over one hundred girls and women were
raped by what many thought were ghosts or demons. Their accounts were
dismissed as 'wild female imagination'.
"Women Talking" is
an imagined response to these real events. When the women learn the
truth, they meet secretly to discuss how to protect themselves and their
daughters from future harm. But they have just two days to decide,
before the rapists are bailed out and brought home.
Paperback, 240 pages