Women Talking by Miriam Toews

Women Talking

Miriam Toews

216 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary dark emotional reflective slow-paced

Description

Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote Mennonite colony, over one hundred girls and women were raped by what many thought were ghosts or demons. Their accounts were dismissed as ‘wild female imagination’. Women Talking is an imagined response to these...

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Moods

dark 69%
reflective 61%
emotional 60%
challenging 48%
sad 44%
tense 36%
hopeful 28%
inspiring 17%
informative 10%
funny 7%
mysterious 3%
adventurous 1%

Pace

slow 53%
medium 34%
fast 12%

Plot- or character-driven?

Character: 69% | A mix: 17% | Plot: 12%

Strong character development?

Yes: 46% | It's complicated: 35% | No: 15% | N/A: 2%

Loveable characters?

Yes: 50% | It's complicated: 37% | No: 9% | N/A: 2%

Diverse cast of characters?

No: 67% | It's complicated: 15% | Yes: 11% | N/A: 5%

Flaws of characters a main focus?

It's complicated: 33% | Yes: 32% | No: 29% | N/A: 4%

Average rating

3.71

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