6/20/2023 0 Comments Toews women talkingSome members of the community felt the women were being made to suffer by God or Satan as punishment for their sins many accused the women of lying for attention or to cover up adultery still others believed everything was the result of wild female imagination.Įventually, it was revealed that eight men from the colony had been using an animal anesthetic to knock their victims unconscious and rape them. The attacks were attributed to ghosts and demons. In Toews’ introductory note, she explains that the book is based on real-life events:īetween 20, in a remote Mennonite colony in Bolivia named the Manitoba Colony, after the province in Canada, many girls and women would wake in the morning feeling drowsy and in pain, their bodies bruised and bleeding, having been attacked in the night. Aesthetically it’s spare-not one character is described, in physical detail-but, visually and emotionally, it is one of the most evocative pieces of writing I’ve encountered, in recent memory. Substantially it’s a #MeToo story, but it takes place in a world far removed from our own. What can I say about Miriam Toews’ Women Talking? Ostensibly it’s a novel, but it reads like a play. Sign up for our newsletter to get submission announcements and stay on top of our best work.
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