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020 _a9781635572582
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020 _a1635574242
_q(Indie Bookstore Day edition)
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050 1 4 _aPR9199.3 .T6113
_bW66 2019
092 _aFICTION
_bT6436wo
100 1 _aToews, Miriam,
_d1964-
245 1 0 _aWomen talking :
_ba novel /
_cMiriam Toews.
260 _aNew York, NY :
_bBloomsbury Publishing,
_c2019.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bBloomsbury Publishing,
_c2019.
264 4 _c©2019.
300 _a216 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c22 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent.
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia.
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier.
500 _aFirst published in Canada in 2018 by Alfred A. Knopf.
520 _aOne 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? Based on real events and told through the "minutes" of the women's all-female symposium, Toews's masterful novel uses wry, politically engaged humor to relate this tale of women claiming their own power to decide.--
_cPublisher's description.
650 0 _aMennonite women
_vFiction.
650 0 _aRape
_vFiction.
650 0 _aMisogyny
_vFiction.
650 0 _aConspiracies
_vFiction.
655 7 _aPsychological fiction.
_2lcgft.
999 _c236521
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