I saw a trailer for the movie, Women Talking, and when I learned it was based on facts I knew I had to learn more. I discovered the movie is based on a book by Miriam Toews, who herself had fled a Mennonite community. I am planning on getting the book. And I will watch the movie at some point when it airs on cable.
If anyone is interested, I can create a movie board where the movie and book can be discussed. Just let me know. I can also create an author board if there is enough interest. Miriam Toews: ‘I needed to write about these women. I could have been one of them’
“I felt an obligation, a need, to write about these women,” says Toews who, like the Mennonites in Bolivia, is descended from the Molotschna colony in what is now Ukraine. “I’m related to them. I could easily have been one of them.”
