{"product_id":"women-talking-9781635574340","title":"Women Talking","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNational Bestseller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Reading Women Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"This amazing, sad, shocking, but touching novel, based on a real-life event, could be right out of \u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid's Tale.\u003c\/i\u003e\" --Margaret Atwood\u003ci\u003e, on Twitter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eScorching . . . \u003ci\u003eWomen Talking\u003c\/i\u003e is a wry, freewheeling novel of ideas that touches on the nature of evil, questions of free will, collective responsibility, cultural determinism, and, above all, forgiveness. --\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, Editor's Choice \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year By\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\u003c\/i\u003e (Notable Books of the Year) * NPR.ORG* \u003ci\u003eTHE WASHINGTON POST * REAL SIMPLE * THE NEW YORK TIMES (PARUL SEHGAL'S TOP BOOKS OF THE YEAR) * SLATE * STAR TRIBUNE (\u003c\/i\u003eMINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL) * LITHUB * \u003ci\u003eAUSTIN CHRONICLE \u003c\/i\u003e* GOOP* ELECTRIC LITERATURE * \u003ci\u003eKIRKUS REVIEWS \u003c\/i\u003e* JEZEBEL* BUSTLE *\u003ci\u003e PUBLISHERS WEEKLY\u003c\/i\u003e * TIME* \u003ci\u003eLIBRARY JOURNAL\u003c\/i\u003e * THE AV CLUB * MASHABLE * VOX * \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/03\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781635574340\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.80d","brand":"Miriam Toews","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36663814619292,"sku":"9781635574340","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_f6fab0e8-df1b-4451-917c-0346d5fa2a18.jpg?v=1603905141","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/women-talking-9781635574340","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}