02943cam a2200337 4500 521792999 TxAuBib 20210904120000.0 ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781501998553 1501998552 23d75b56-695a-4ced-9d23-be3193fd174c OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5040707 5040707 4606280 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Toews, Miriam. Women Talking [Libby]. Recorded Books, Inc., 2019. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 164MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 164MB. Fiction. Literature. HTML:<p>A transformative and necessary work—as completely unexpected as it is inspired—by the award-winning author of the bestselling novels <i>All My Puny Sorrows</i> and <i>A Complicated Kindness</i>.</p> <p>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 <i>Women Talking</i> 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.</p>. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 13:21:58. Edison, Matthew. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1694-1/4606280-WomenTalking.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=23d75b56-695a-4ced-9d23-be3193fd174c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1694-1/4606280-WomenTalking.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=23d75b56-695a-4ced-9d23-be3193fd174c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)