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Women Talking

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Women Talking

One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of them 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, these women --- all illiterate, without any knowledge of the world outside their community and unable even to speak the language of the country in which they live --- 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?

Women Talking
by Miriam Toews

  • Publication Date: March 3, 2020
  • Genres: Fiction, Women's Fiction
  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN-10: 163557434X
  • ISBN-13: 9781635574340