{"product_id":"women-talking-miriam-toews","title":"Women Talking - Miriam Toews","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe sun rises on a quiet June morning in 2009. August Epp sits alone in the hayloft of a barn, anxiously bent over his notebook. He writes quickly, aware that his solitude will soon be broken. Eight women--ordinary grandmothers, mothers, and teenagers; yet to August, each one extraordinary--will climb the ladder into the loft, and the day's true task will begin. This task will be both simple and subversive: August, like the women, is a traditional Mennonite, and he has been asked to record a secret conversation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThus begins Miriam Toews's spellbinding novel. Gradually, as we hear the women's vivid voices console, tease, admonish, regale, and debate each other, we piece together the reason for the gathering: They have forty-eight hours to make a life-altering choice on behalf of all the women and children in the colony. And like a vast night sky coming into view behind the bright sparks of their voices, we learn of the devastating events that have led to this moment.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBased on real events and told through the “minutes” of the women’s all-female symposium, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWomen Talking\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e uses wry, politically engaged humor to relate this tale of women claiming their own power to decide.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUsed Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e216 pages, Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published August 21, 2018\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brewberry Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43305554739294,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0631\/0585\/9678\/files\/39172103.jpg?v=1789065845","url":"https:\/\/www.brewberrybooks.ca\/products\/women-talking-miriam-toews","provider":"Brewberry Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}