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03647cam a2200541 i 4500 001 CF3404F6569E11ECA3C586EB0E3FDB2A 003 SILO 005 20211206081422 008 200130t20192018nyua e 000 1 eng d 010 $a 2020275372 020 $a 1635574242 020 $a 9781635574241 020 $a 1635572584 020 $a 9781635572582 035 $a (OCoLC)1090059949 040 $a NjBwBT $b eng $e rda $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d W8A $d HZR $d MHH $d SOM $d TCH $d YOU $d BYV $d OCLCF $d GYG $d NIU $d BUF $d QE2 $d OCL $d OCLCO $d KK2 $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 050 00 $a PR9199.3.T6113 $b W66 2019b 055 3 $a PS8589.O49 $b W66 2019 082 04 $a 813/.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Toews, Miriam, $d 1964- $e author. 245 10 $a Women talking : $b a novel / $c Miriam Toews. 264 1 $a New York : $b Bloomsbury Publishing, $c 2019. 300 $a 216 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm 520 $a One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony, has been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming to punish them for their sins. Now that the women have learned they were in fact drugged and attacked by a group of men from their own community, they are determined to protect themselves and their daughters from future harm. While the men of the colony are off in the city, attempting to raise enough money to bail out the rapists and bring them home, these women-all illiterate, without any knowledge of the world outside their community and unable even to speak the language of the country they live in-have very little time to make a choice: Should they stay in the only world they've ever known or should they dare to escape? Based on real events and told through the "minutes" of the women's all-female symposium, Toews's masterful novel uses wry, politically engaged humor to relate this tale of women claiming their own power to decide.-- $c Publisher's description 520 $a For the past two years women and girls in a Mennonite colony has been repeatedly violated in the night by "demons" coming to punish them for their sins. Now the women have learned they were in fact drugged and attacked by a group of men from their own community. Determined to protect themselves and their daughters from future harm, the women meet while the men of the colony are off in the city, attempting to raise enough money to bail out the rapists and bring them home. These women-- all illiterate, unable even to speak the language of the country they live in-- must choose: Stay in the only world they've ever known, or dare to escape? -- adapted from publisher info 650 0 $a Mennonite women $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Rape $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Misogyny $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Conspiracies $v Fiction. 650 1 $a Rape $x Fiction. 650 7 $a FICTION $x Literary. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Conspiracies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00875715 650 7 $a Mennonite women. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01016178 650 7 $a Misogyny. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01023668 650 7 $a Rape. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01089970 650 7 $a Rape $v Fiction. $2 sears 655 0 $a FICTION / Literary. 655 4 $a Fiction. 655 7 $a Psychological fiction. $2 bisacsh 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a Psychological fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726481 655 7 $a Suspense fiction. $2 gsafd 655 7 $a Psychological fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 $n 1 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20230622124352.0 $n 11 $p 1 LP, 1 CD 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CF3404F6569E11ECA3C586EB0E3FDB2A 994 $a C0 $b IOZInitiate Another SILO Locator Search