![]() ![]() "The options they're considering are to stay and fight, to leave and to do nothing." ![]() "There are eight women, two families, different generations, teenagers and then their mothers and their grandmothers, and all of the women have been attacked, have been raped, including the young children of the women there, and they have two days, 48 hours, to figure out what to do," she says. Toews takes that story and imagines what happened next, as the women gather in a hayloft and discuss how to respond. Miriam Toews' new book Women Talking is based on a ghastly true story - here's the opening sentence: "Between 20, in a remote Mennonite colony in Bolivia, many girls and women would wake in the morning feeling drowsy and in pain, having been attacked in the night."Įventually it was revealed that men from the colony were drugging and raping the women. How?Įditor's note: This story concerns sexual violence Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Women Talking Author Miriam Toews ![]()
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