Women Talking

👍🏼Pick It: for an intricate and tangled look inside true events that read like a dystopian
👎🏼Skip It: If you're expecting a loud Handsmaid's Tale-esque revolution

Miriam Toews authored one of my 2018 Favorite Reads (All My Puny Sorrows), so I cracked this one open with first-born expectations.

And she came to the story with a full arsenal:
* Firsthand experience in Mennonite culture.
* Matchmaker Queen between readable word and unspeakable pain.

Unfortunately, this was a fumble. I found the plot painstakingly slow with little resolve.

Dubbing a male to narrate contradicted and eliminated her first-row opportunity and responsibility to convey the story of the voiceless.