Review of <em>Women Talking</em>—Miriam Toews

Abstract

Women Talking is Canadian writer Miriam Toews’ seventh novel. She has also written a memoir about her father and starred in the 2007 art house film about Old Colony Mennonites in Mexico, Silent Light, written and directed by Mexican filmmaker, Carlos Reygada. Toews has won numerous awards, including the prestigious Governor General’s Award for her novel, A Complicated Kindness in 2004. [First paragraph]