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02496aim a2200421Mi 4500 001 4CBBE228658D11E99B4892F996128E48 003 SILO 005 20190423010125 007 sd fungnnmmned 008 020813s2018 mdunnnn z n eng d 020 $a 1501998323 020 $a 9781501998324 028 02 $a C05266 $b Recorded Books 035 $a (OCoLC)1089742510 040 $a RECBC $b eng $e rda $c RECBC $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d IOU $d SILO 050 4 $a PR9199.3.T6113 $b W66 2018 082 04 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Toews, Miriam, $d 1964- $e author. 245 10 $a Women talking : $b a novel / $c Miriam Toews. 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a Prince Frederick, Md. : $b Recorded Books, $c [2018] 300 $a 5 audio discs (5 hr., 45 min.) : $b digital ; $c 4 3/4 in. 500 $a Compact disc. 500 $a In container (17 cm.). 500 $a Title from container. 511 0 $a Narrated by Matthew Edison. 520 $a 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. How should we live? How should we love? How should we treat one another? How should we organise our societies? These are questions the women in Women Talking ask one another. 650 4 $a Books on compact disc, Unabridged. 650 0 $a Demonology $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Mennonite women $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Rape victims $v Fiction. 700 1 $a Edison, Matthew, $e narrator. 710 2 $a Recorded Books, Inc. 941 $a 1 945 $a cdab 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20190423012641.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4CBBE228658D11E99B4892F996128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search