![]() ![]() As Women Talking sat nascent in Toews’s mind, her sister Marjorie killed herself on the railway tracks in Steinbach where her father, Melvin, had done the same 12 years earlier. ![]() Could be right out of The Handmaid’s Tale.”īut the timing of the release is coincidence, not prescience, because the novel was a long time coming. Comparisons to the newly hot The Handmaid’s Tale were already likely (not just bonnets but the patriarchy) and became inevitable when Margaret Atwood tweeted: “ Don’t miss this one!. The slim book drops into the cultural conversation around sexual assault like an exclamation mark: “#MennoniteMeToo” remarked one reader. ![]() It’s a dense, eerie, darkly funny novel that reads like a tightly constructed short story. Toews’s eighth book, Women Talking, is a fictional account of eight women gathering in the wake of the men’s arrests to decide a course of action. Rigid and righteous … the Mennonite Heritage Village in Steinbach, Manitoba. ![]()
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