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Mennonite #MeToo

Women Talking by Miriam Toews

July 20, 2020 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

Women Talking is a fictionalized story that is founded on a real story- the ‘ghost rapes’ that occurred in the Manitoba Mennonite colony in rural Bolivia between 2004 and 2009.  For years, women would awake groggy, with signs that they had been sexually assaulted.  Eventually one of the rapists is caught in the act; he confesses his role in the rapes and implicates 8 other men from the colony. Toews, who is from a Mennonite community in Canada, took this horrific story and turned it […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Bolivia, cbr12bingo, Mennonite, Miriam Toews, repeat, shelfie, women talking

Wanderlustful's CBR12 Review No:38 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Bolivia, cbr12bingo, Mennonite, Miriam Toews, repeat, shelfie, women talking ·
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A Difficult Read With Some Hope

Women Talking by Miriam Toews

August 27, 2019 by Jen K Leave a Comment

I ended up pre-ordering this novel based on llp’s review of this last year.  It was published in Canada long before the Kindle version was available in the United States because I didn’t even remember what this was about by the time it downloaded onto my reader. Toews wrote this novel as a fictional reaction to the horrifying events that happened in a Mennonite community in Bolivia.  I had actually read about the rapes that had plagued the women of the community before llp’s review.  […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Miriam Toews, patriarchy, women talking

Jen K's CBR11 Review No:50 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Miriam Toews, patriarchy, women talking ·
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Women talking, getting comfortable with anger

September 23, 2018 by llp 1 Comment

I picked up Miriam Toews’ newest novel, Women Talking, in the airport recently. I felt very lucky because it ticked so many boxes for me – I had run out of reading material on a work trip so really needed a book, it was in those new resell displays at the news stand so it was discounted enough to get through my NO NEW BOOK PURCHASES embargo, it fits with my vow to read more Canadian literature, and it was published in 2018. Toews has […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #CBR10, canlit, cbr10bingo, Fiction, gentlyfalling, llp, Miriam Toews, women talking

llp's CBR10 Review No:21 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #CBR10, canlit, cbr10bingo, Fiction, gentlyfalling, llp, Miriam Toews, women talking ·
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