Schoolteacher August Epp-who takes the minutes of the meetings for the women, since they are illiterate, and is trusted by them because he’s been ostracized by the community’s men-tracks every conversation leading to the women’s final decision. The Friesens want to stay and fight the men, and the Loewens want to leave Molotschna altogether the rest of the women in the colony decide to do nothing and skip the clandestine meetings. They believed that the nightly attacks were by ghosts and demons until a man was caught and named other perpetrators then the women realized that the victims were drugged and raped by men from their community. After more than 300 women in the Mennonite colony of Molotschna were attacked between 20, eight of the settlement’s women, from the Loewen and Friesen families, gather secretly to discuss their plan of action in this powerful novel by Toews (All My Puny Sorrows).
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