A review by illegibility
Women Talking by Miriam Toews

dark reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I love this kind of slow, deliberative character study, but this one didn't quite fit me. I couldn't keep the characters straight for much of the book. Maybe the male narrator was a metacommentary on how, even when women's voices are heard, they are recounted by men, but I still didn't care for his descriptions of rolled-down socks. This all sounds very critical for a book I read in an afternoon, but I do think it succeeds for the most part in what it does and would recommend it - it just wasn't for me, and that's fine.
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