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02500aam a2200409Mi 4500 001 B2757CF4029211E9995FCDF696128E48 003 SILO 005 20181218010107 008 180111s2018 enk 000 1 eng d 020 $a 9780571340323 020 $a 0571340326 035 $a (OCoLC)1018459221 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d SINLB $d OCLCF $d EYM $d NZHWP $d UKMGB $d OCLCQ $d EQO $d NZAUC $d SILO 050 4 $a PR9199.3.T6113 $b W65 2018 082 04 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Toews, Miriam, $d 1964- $e author. 245 10 $a Women talking / $c Miriam Toews. 264 1 $a London : $b Faber & Faber, $c 2018. 300 $a 216 pages ; $c 21 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 7 $a Demonology $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00890199 650 7 $a Mennonite women $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01016178 650 7 $a Rape victims $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01090022 650 4 $a Women $v Fiction. 650 4 $a Mennonites $v Fiction. 650 4 $a Rape $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 776 08 $i Ebook version : $z 9780571340347 941 $a 2 952 $l SEPC074 $d 20200207011607.0 952 $l GAAX314 $d 20181218010159.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B2757CF4029211E9995FCDF696128E48 994 $a Z0 $b HL6Initiate Another SILO Locator Search