In Miriam Toews’s novel, Women Talking, the women of a remote Mennonite colony are hold secret meetings to talk about the crimes of the men who they live alongside. After years of being told that they were suffering from hysterical delusions, the women “came to understand that they were collectively dreaming one dream, and that it wasn’t a dream at all.” Women Talking is a response to the real life events on a Mennonite settlement in Bolivia between 2005 and 2009. Miriam Toews talks to World Book Club readers in Toronto and around the world about her unique and powerful story about the power of language and solidarity. (Photo: Miriam Toews, Canadian author at the Hay Festival, 4 June, 2022 in Hay-on-Wye, Wales. Credit: David Levenson/Getty Images)
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This month World Book Club is on the road, coming to you from a bookstore in the West End of Toronto.
This is Canada's largest city, situated on the traditional territory of many nations, the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Chippewa, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples.
We're on the shores of one of the Great Lakes and Toronto is home to some great Canadian writers, including Margaret Atwood, Michael Endacci, and today's special guest, Miriam Toews.
Miriam's novels include A Complicated Kindness, All My Puny Sorrows, and the book we've chosen today, Women Talking.
It's based on a true story about an isolated Mennonite community in Bolivia.