A review by safsaf118
Women Talking by Miriam Toews

challenging dark reflective sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

I was a bit unsure about how a book that is essentially just women talking for several hours would be executed but I always have faith in Miriam Toews. This was incredible and hard to read but even harder to put down. Gripping and devastating. 

“We are women without a voice, Ona states calmly. We are women out of time and place, without even the language of the country we reside in…All we women have are our dreams — so of course we are dreamers.”

“We will feel anguish and we will feel sorrow and we will feel uncertainty and we will feel sadness, but not guilt, says Agata.”