03071cim a2200481 i 4500 2791190713 TxAuBib 20250623120000.0 r 260609s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781501998553 sound recording : hoopla Audio Book 1501998552 sound recording : hoopla Audio Book MWT13540808 Midwest rda TxAuBib rda Toews, Miriam, 1964-, author. Women Talking [Hoopla] / Miriam Toews. Unabridged. [United States : Recorded Books, Inc., 2019. Made available through hoopla. 1 online resource (1 audio file (5hr., 54 min.)) : digital. spw rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Instant title available through hoopla. Read by Matthew Edison. A transformative and necessary work-as completely unexpected as it is inspired-by the award-winning author of the bestselling novels All My Puny Sorrows and A Complicated Kindness. Based on actual events that happened between 2005 and 2009 in a remote Mennonite community where more than 100 girls and women were drugged unconscious and assaulted in the night by what they were told (by the men of the colony) were "ghosts" or "demons," Miriam Toews' bold and affecting novel Women Talking is an imagined response to these real events. The novel takes place over forty-eight hours, as eight women gather in secret in a neighbour's barn while the men are in a nearby town posting bail for the attackers. They have come together to debate, on behalf of all the women and children in the community, whether to stay or leave before the men return. Taking minutes is the one man trusted and invited by the women to witness the conversation-a former outcast whose own surprising story is revealed as the women speak. By turns poignant, witty, acerbic, bitter, tender, devastating, and heartbreaking, the voices in this extraordinary novel are unforgettable. Toews has chosen to focus the novel tightly on a particular time and place, and yet it contains within its 48 hours and setting inside a hayloft an entire vast universe of thinking and feeling about the experience of women (and therefore men, too) in our contemporary world. In a word: astonishing. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Hoopla Audiobook. Conspiracies Fiction. Mennonite women Fiction. Misogyny Fiction. Playaway (Preloaded audio player) Fiction. Rape Fiction. Amish Fiction. Literature Fiction. Women Fiction. Fiction. lcgft Audiobooks. Edison, Matthew, reader. Hoopla digital. https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/13540808?utm_source=MARC&Lid=hh3964 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/rbd_9781501998553_180.jpeg Cover image BSBPL