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008 190318s2019 nyu 000 1 eng d
040 _aNjBwBT
_beng
_erda
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020 _a9781635572582
_q(hardcover)
020 _a1635572584
_q(hardcover)
020 _a9781635574241
_q(Indie Bookstore Day edition)
020 _a1635574242
_q(Indie Bookstore Day edition)
035 _a(OCoLC)1090059949
092 _aToews,
_bMiriam
049 _aNFGA
100 1 _aToews, Miriam,
_d1964-
_eauthor.
_9140599
245 1 0 _aWomen talking :
_ba novel /
_cMiriam Toews.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bBloomsbury,
_c2019.
300 _a216 pages ;
_c22 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
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.
650 0 _aMennonite women
_vFiction.
_9392970
650 0 _aRape
_vFiction.
_954531
650 0 _aMisogyny
_vFiction.
_9138703
650 0 _aConspiracies
_vFiction.
_9392971
655 7 _aPsychological fiction.
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994 _aC0
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999 _c290143
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