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Miriam Toews: Women Talking (Hardcover, 2019, Bloomsbury Publishing) 4 stars

One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. …

Gorgeous and complex on an unimaginably horrid situation

5 stars

I’m still wrestling with this! She writes so sensitively and often affectingly obliquely about the tragedy that was forced on these women and their efforts to work through agency and safety and faith and love. I would not recommend this for anyone who has suffered sexual abuse without a great deal of preparation ahead of time