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A review by myeonghopabo
Women Talking by Miriam Toews
3.5
a book that ultimately functions way better as a performance, perhaps theatre or as a thought experiment.
women talking initially rears its head as a cousin of the virgin suicides; a fundamentally feminist narrative of women and girls taking control yet ironically, have their stories told (or distorted?) by a male narrator. while women talking differs from tvs through representing a complex perspective of women talking ("there's no plot, we are only women talking" yet theirs is a story that is strikingly revolutionary and self-reflexive), august's position as thealluded product of rape conducted by bishop peters reminds its readers that there is no identity, not even gender, that is more significant than being a child of a mother.
highly philosophical so it doesn't make for an enjoyable read however, it does make for a insightful one.
women talking initially rears its head as a cousin of the virgin suicides; a fundamentally feminist narrative of women and girls taking control yet ironically, have their stories told (or distorted?) by a male narrator. while women talking differs from tvs through representing a complex perspective of women talking ("there's no plot, we are only women talking" yet theirs is a story that is strikingly revolutionary and self-reflexive), august's position as the
highly philosophical so it doesn't make for an enjoyable read however, it does make for a insightful one.