Her newest book, Women Talking, is a response to the real-life story of mass sexual assault in a remote Mennonite colony its cover art (see below) is both elegant and ominous, evoking, at least from our current cultural imagination, The Handmaid’s Tale. Miriam Toews (pronounced “taves”) first came to my attention in 2015 with All My Puny Sorrows, a moving novelization of her sister’s suicide this intelligent, propulsive work tested the bounds of empathy and family loyalty.
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