![]() ![]() That book became a bestseller in 2013, nominated for the Folio prize and the Wellcome prize. The Bolivia story was set aside as Toews answered an urgent need to write All My Puny Sorrows, a tragicomic story of one sister’s life and death, told by the one left behind. 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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