The best books of the year (plus one that, OK, isn’t really from this year).
Eight Mennonite women assemble in a hayloft to debate a crisis: For years they’ve been drugged and assaulted in their sleep by the men of their own community, whose evil has been protected and shielded by their leaders.
Now they must decide: Do they leave the community forever, or do they stay and fight? Both a potent parable and a richly drawn character study, Toews’ novel presents these women’s unadorned voices as they discuss outrage, forgiveness, and fear. The result is beautiful and challenging, but also slyly funny, as when in making lists of pros and cons for leaving, one woman adds, under thecolumn, “We will not be asked to forgive the men, because we will not be here to hear the question.
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