Women talking : a novel
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New York, NY : Bloomsbury, 2019.
ISBN
9781635572582, 1635572584, 9781635574241, 1635574242
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Acorn Public Library District - Stacks | FIC TOEWS, M. | On Shelf |
Addison Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult Books | FIC TOEWS M. | On Shelf |
Alsip-Merrionette Park Public Library District - Stacks | F TOEWS | On Shelf |
Batavia Public Library District - Adult Fiction | FIC Toews, Miriam | On Shelf |
Bensenville Community Public Library District - Fiction | TOEWS | Checked out |
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Published
New York, NY : Bloomsbury, 2019.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9781635572582, 1635572584, 9781635574241, 1635574242
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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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Toews, M. (2019). Women talking: a novel . Bloomsbury.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Toews, Miriam, 1964-. 2019. Women Talking: A Novel. Bloomsbury.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Toews, Miriam, 1964-. Women Talking: A Novel Bloomsbury, 2019.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Toews, Miriam. Women Talking: A Novel Bloomsbury, 2019.
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