One Book Lambton
One Book Lambton is a literary event, designed to celebrate Canadian authors and to unite people from around Lambton County by reading the same book. People are encouraged to read the same selected book and engage in various activities throughout the winter and spring that highlight themes from the book.
Lambton County Library is excited to announce the selection for One Book Lambton 2024 is Women Talking by Miriam Toews.
Miriam Toews is a Canadian writer who has written nine books, including A Complicated Kindness, All My Puny Sorrows, and Women Talking. She has won many literary awards, including the Governor General's Award for Fiction (2004) and the Writers' Trust Engel Findley Award (2010). Women Talking is an internationally bestselling novel that was a shortlist finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award in 2018 and longlisted for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award. The book was adapted into a movie in 2022, directed by Canadian filmmaker Sarah Polley, and was nominated for Best Picture at the Academy® Awards. Polley was awarded Best Adapted Screen Play.
The novel Women Talking is a work of fiction, but it is inspired by true events that took place between 2005 and 2009 in Manitoba Colony, a secluded Mennonite community in Bolivia. The author, Miriam Toews, describes her book as a fictional response to real-life events. The novel takes place over 48 hours and focuses on the conversation of eight Mennonite women who gather in a hayloft. They are tasked with deciding on behalf of the women in their colony how to respond to more than a hundred violent night-time assaults that have been perpetrated against women and girls in the community.
Women Talking is available to borrow through Lambton County Library's online catalogue, through the Libby app, by calling any Lambton County Library location, or purchasing a copy from your favourite book seller.
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