MAC'S BACKS FEMME BOOK CLUB DISCUSSES WOMEN TALKING

Wednesday, October 6, 2021 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm

Mac's Backs Femme Book Club discusses Women Talking by Miriam Toews.

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.

"A feminist manifesto that delicately unwraps the horror, but also bubbles with the love and wry humor that has endeared Toews to her readers . . . Toews' celebrated novels are haunted by her upbringing, but she has never written with such heartbreak, or taken such sure aim at fundamentalism and its hypocrisies, as she does in her new book, Women Talking. . . Did I mention the book is funny? Wickedly so, with Toews's brand of seditious wit" -- The New York Times 

"Miriam Toews is wickedly funny and fearlessly honest... She is an artist of escape; she always finds a way for her characters, trapped by circumstance, to liberate themselves." -- The New Yorker

The book will be available at Mac's Backs or through our website at the 20% book club discount.

Contact us for meeting location details.

Event address: 
1820 Coventry Road
Cleveland Hts., OH 44118
Books: 
Women Talking By Miriam Toews Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781635574340
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - March 3rd, 2020