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03339aim a2200421Ka 4500 001 9BE457E0A45911EDA94333522DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230204010026 006 m h 007 cr una--- 007 sz usn nn ed 008 200626s2019 nyu s 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1501998552 020 $a 9781501998553 (sound recording) 040 $a TEFOD $c TEFOD $d SILO 084 $a FIC019000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Toews, Miriam. 245 10 $a Women talking $h [electronic resource]. $c Miriam Toews. 250 $a Unabridged. 260 $a Prince Frederick : $b Recorded Books Inc., $c 2019. 300 $a 1 online resource (6 audio files) : $b digital 306 $a 05:57:19 500 $a Unabridged. 511 0 $a Narrator: Matthew Edison. 520 $a A transformative and necessary work—as completely unexpected as it is inspired—by the award-winning author of the bestselling novels All My Puny Sorrows and A Complicated Kindness . 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 Women Talking 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. 538 $a Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 167514 KB). 650 17 $a Fiction. $2 OverDrive 650 7 $a Literature. $2 OverDrive 655 7 $a Electronic books. $2 local 700 1 $a Edison, Matthew. 856 40 $u http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=251&titleID=4606280 $z Click to download here. 856 4 $3 Excerpt $u https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=23d75b56-695a-4ced-9d23-be3193fd174c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com $z Sample 856 4 $3 Image $u https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1694-1/%7B23D75B56-695A-4CED-9D23-BE3193FD174C%7DImg100.jpg $z Large cover image 856 4 $3 Thumbnail $u https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1694-1/%7B23D75B56-695A-4CED-9D23-BE3193FD174C%7DImg200.jpg $z Thumbnail cover image 856 40 $3 Click for more information $u https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1B0wAAAA2Z/products/23d75b56-695a-4ced-9d23-be3193fd174c $x 1370 941 $a 1 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20230204010130.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9BE457E0A45911EDA94333522DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search