paperback, 240 pages
Published March 3, 2020 by Bloomsbury Publishing.
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
wow. what a departure for Toews. it's a philosophical treatise against the backdrop of both an ancient and modern Mennonite colony (time doesn't really pass in a colony, just new vocabulary get added). the crimes of this authoritarian and patriarchal society are shockingly close to crimes being perpetrated today. and the women's reactions are universal and timeless. Toews is an author so shaped by her early life in a religious sect, and this latest offering leads me to believe that her faith, her true faith, has never left her.
