Miriam Toews
Canadian novelist of Mennonite background whose A Complicated Kindness is a beloved coming-of-age novel of Mennonite community life. Women Talking, about sexual assault in a Bolivian Mennonite colony, became an acclaimed film. She is one of Canada's most celebrated and original literary voices.
Works
- A Complicated KindnessMennonite teenager rebels against her strict religious community
- Women TalkingEight women discuss their response to sexual assault in their community
- All My Puny SorrowsSister's suicide haunts her family through grief and dark humor
- The Flying TroutmansEstranged family reunites for a road trip of reckoning
- Irma VothMennonite woman's marriage unravels while she searches for her daughter