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Women talking
Title:
Women talking
Personal Author EPSB:
Summary:
A major work by one of our most beloved and esteemed writers, the novel is based on real events that happened between 2005 and 2009 in a remote Mennonite community where more than 100 girls and women were drugged unconscious and raped in the night by what they were told were "ghosts" or "demons." Women Talking is an imagined response to these real events. It takes place over 48 hours, as eight women hide in a hayloft while the men are in a nearby town posting bail for the perpetrators. 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 invited by the women to witness the conversation--a former outcast whose own surprising story is revealed as the women talk. By turns poignant, furious, witty, acerbic, tender, devastating, and heartbreaking, the voices in this extraordinary novel are unforgettable.
Year Published:
2018-2019
Physical Description:
216 pages ; 22 cm

216 pages ; 21 cm
Awards:
Finalist for the 2019 Trillium Book Award.
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ISBN:
9781635572582

9781635574340

9780735273962

9780735273979
Publisher:
New York, NY : Bloomsbury, 2019.

Toronto, Ontario : Knopf Canada, [2018].

Toronto, Ontario : Vintage Canada, 2019.

©2018