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One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony, has been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming to punish them for their sins. Now that the women have learned they were in fact drugged and attacked by a group of men from their own community, they are determined to protect themselves and their daughters from future harm."If Toews clarifies the smallness of the world these women inhabit, their radicalism sometimes far exceeds our own... But the novel ends on a note of terrifying hope so pure and desperate and idealistic that it’s almost unbearable." - Lili Loofbourow, The New York Times Book ReviewWhile the men of the colony are off in the city, attempting to raise enough money to bail out the rapists and bring them home, these women—all illiterate, without any knowledge of the world outside their community and unable even to speak the language of the country they live in—have very little time to make a choice: Should they stay in the only world they’ve ever known or should they dare to escape?"...though Toews' writing is simple and ofte

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Author

Miriam Toews

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing Usa

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781635574340

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction