A review by elerireads
Women Talking by Miriam Toews

dark emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

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

4.25

Pretty good. Readable and gripping. Rage-inducing, less for what had been done to the women than for the way they tie themselves in knots trying to reconcile their faith with their feelings about the men who raped them. It's really the kind of book that makes you think "did men make up religion purely to make it easier to subjugate women?" I did have to suspend disbelief in a few places at the premise of August taking minutes translated into English and some of the language, which seemed a bit unrealistic.