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Women Talking

by Miriam Toews
Matthew Edison
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Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote religious Mennonite colony, over a hundred girls and women were knocked unconscious and raped, often repeatedly, by what many thought were ghosts or demons, as a punishment for their sins. As the women tentatively began to share the details of the attacks-waking up sore and bleeding and not understanding why-their stories were chalked up to 'wild female imagination.' Women Talking is an imagined response to these real events. Eight women, all illiterate, without any knowledge of the world outside their colony and unable even to speak the language of the country they live in, meet secretly in a hayloft with the intention of making a decision about how to protect themselves and their daughters from future harm. They have two days to make a plan, while the men of the colony are away in the city attempting to raise enough money to bail out the rapists (not ghosts as it turns out but local men) and bring them home.

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  • Release date

    October 1, 2018

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      • ISBN: 9781528820325
      • File size: 171437 KB
      • Duration: 05:57:09

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      This audiobook offers something unexpected: a story about women, narrated by a man. A colony of Mennonite women who have been assaulted by male colonists must decide how to respond. They come together in a meeting at which minutes are being taken by a man named August Epp. Portraying the eight female characters with seeming ease, narrator Matthew Edison makes the most of a richly layered story about repressed women's choices--which are starkly illuminated even as their conversation and quarrels are reduced to a man's notes. Edison's reserved tone belies the weight of the story's issues of guilt, sin, and propriety. But the themes of patriarchy and religion are heady--so his mildness is appreciated. M.P.P. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine

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