They have only two days to do this before the men return home, at which point the women will be asked to forgive the rapists (in order to guarantee their places in heaven) or leave the colony. The women secretly gather in a hayloft to discuss their response to these awful events. In the aftermath of the rapes, following the rapists’ arrests, the men of Molotschna travel to the city and attempt to bail the eight perpetrators out of jail. The book focuses on eight illiterate women in a colony called Molotschna. Women Talking is a fictional response to the horrific real-life events that occurred in a remote Bolivian Mennonite colony between 20, in which more than 100 women and girls were repeatedly drugged and sexually assaulted by men in their community. *Content/ Trigger warning: rape, sexual assault That book is Women Talking by Miriam Toews. I recently read a novel that was so compelling, I think it’s been permanently etched into my mind and heart. It moved and disturbed me in equal measures and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it.
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