6/7/2023 0 Comments Women talking by miriam toews![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For the colony’s bishop, Peters, all that’s needed is for the perpetrators to come home so the victims can forgive them, ensuring everyone’s place in heaven. With the colony’s remaining men in town arranging bail, eight women – among them, Ona, pregnant with her rapist’s child, and teenager Neitje, whose mother has committed suicide – meet in a hayloft to decide what to do next. Toews’s fictional response begins after the attackers’ arrest. But it is based on real events in a Mennonite community in Bolivia, in the mid-late 00s, where girls and women were repeatedly drugged and raped in their sleep, purportedly by demons but actually by local men, later jailed. A chilling tale of systematic subjugation in a rural religious colony, Miriam Toews’s new novel sounds like another addition to the current wave of feminist dystopias that have emerged post-Trump. ![]()
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