Women Talking

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

True to its title, this book contains a lot of talking. Women in a Mennonite community are deciding what to do after learning of abuse that has been perpetrated against them and their daughters while they were rendered unconscious.

There is a lot of philosophizing that arises from this discussion, but the problem is, the novel reads more like an essay than a story, in many ways.

This was not my favourite Toews work.