Saturday, December 31, 2022

WOMEN TALKING

Miriam Toews. WOMEN TALKING. Knopf, 2018.

Women in a Mennonite colony in South America ask a returned teacher to take notes at their meeting when they debate what to do to respond to the abuse from males in the colony. The women cannot read or write, but they can think and talk.



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