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02612aam a22004578i 4500 001 F40EE3BC9C8E11E981649E3E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20190702010117 008 190220t20192018meu d 000 1 eng 010 $a 2019008275 020 $a 1432865773 020 $a 9781432865771 (large print : hardcover) 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 10 $a PR9199.3.T6113 $b W66 2019 082 04 $a 813/.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Toews, Miriam, $d 1964- $e author. 245 10 $a Women talking / $c by Mirian Toews. 250 $a Large print edition. 260 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c 2019. 263 $a 1906 300 $a 291 pages ; $c 23 cm. 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 0 $a Mennonite women $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Rape victims $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Demonology $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Large type books. 941 $a 11 945 $a lpt 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20240509013537.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20230512010354.0 952 $l YTPG232 $d 20230302011807.0 952 $l SIPD314 $d 20230201022339.0 952 $l WSPF215 $d 20210504012429.0 952 $l SCPC074 $d 20210422013623.0 952 $l GUPF501 $d 20200130012027.0 952 $l BKPC251 $d 20190926140945.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20190913010120.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20190808011021.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20190702013226.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F40EE3BC9C8E11E981649E3E97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search