The True Story Behind Women Talking and Miriam Toews' Novel
The True Story Behind Women Talking and Miriam Toews' Novel
Sarah Polley's buzzy drama, adapted from Miriam Toews' novel, is rooted in a harrowing story that took place in a Mennonite colony in ...
I Covered the Story That Inspired 'Women Talking' - Time
A group of eight Mennonite men from an isolated off-the-grid colony named Manitoba had been brought to the local police station by members of ...
Women Talking (novel) - Wikipedia
Women Talking (2018) is the seventh novel by Canadian writer Miriam Toews. Toews describes her novel as "an imagined response to real events," the ...
Miriam Toews: 'I needed to write about these women. I could have ...
Between 2005 and 2009, more than 130 Mennonite women were drugged and raped by men in the community. In new novel Women Talking, ...
Is 'Women Talking' Based on a True Story?
The real-life story that inspired writer Miriam Toews, which Sarah Polley adapted for the big screen, is horrifying.
The real story behind 'Women Talking' | CBC Radio
Today on Front Burner, a series of sexual assaults at a Mennonite Colony in Bolivia is the inspiration behind Sarah Polley's new film Women ...
'Women Talking,' by Miriam Toews, Is a Mennonite #MeToo Novel
In an isolated religious community, some of the men have been raping the women for years. When they are finally arrested, the women must ...
Interview: Miriam Toews, Author Of 'Women Talking' - NPR
Miriam Toews' new novel is based on an awful true story: The drugging and rape of women in a Mennonite colony in Bolivia.
The shocking true story behind new film Women Talking
The premise of Women Talking is deceivingly simple; a group of women from a fictitious Mennonite community sit in a barn and, as the title would suggest, talk.
A Mennonite Tragedy: The True Story Behind 'Women Talking'
"Women Talking" is loosely based on a harrowing tragedy in a Bolivian Mennonite colony, where numerous women and young girls were drugged and raped.
'Women Talking' takes a blunt look at patriarchal violence - NBC News
The movie, based on a 2018 novel by Miriam Toews (in turn based on a true story), and is set in 2010 in a fictional Mennonite colony.
Miriam Toews: how Oscar nom 'Women Talking' differs from her novel
'Women Talking' novelist Miriam Toews discusses what Mennonites think of the Oscar-nominated film and what she thinks of Sarah Polley's use ...
Miriam Toews's 'Women Talking' - The White Review
Toews' new novel, Women Talking, marks a departure from her earlier books. It describes a real event that occurred in Manitoba, a Mennonite community in ...
'Women Talking' Gives A Human Voice To Horror - NPR
Miriam Toews' new novel is based on an awful true story: The drugging and rape of women in a Mennonite colony in Bolivia.
You must read Miriam Toews' astonishing new novel, 'Women Talking'
"Women Talking" is essential reading, a riveting examination of the violence men perpetrate against women as told through the Mennonite ...
The true story behind “Women Talking” - Brut
The movie, starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, and Frances Mc Dorman, was adapted from the 2018 novel of the same name by Miriam Toews. The ...
A Work of Female Imagination: "Women Talking" - Oprah Daily
The novel is based on a true story of a Mennonite community in Bolivia in which women were assaulted at night.
In "Women Talking," Mennonite Women Grapple with Faith and Justice
What can I say about Miriam Toews' Women Talking? Ostensibly it's a novel, but it reads like a play. Substantially it's a #MeToo story, ...
Women Talking review: Miriam Toews ponders justice after #MeToo
A Bolivian Mennonite community was terrorized by a string of rapes. This new novel asks what comes next.
Women Talking by Miriam Toews – review | Fiction - The Guardian
This fictionalised story of a real-life rape in a religious colony is brave and thoughtful.