https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/25/something-has-come-to-light-fiction-miriam-toews
Perhaps you have read novels by Miriam Toews or saw the excellent movie based on one of them, WOMEN TALKING. A memoir by Toews comes out this month. Towes, who fled her Mennonite community at 18 has said she feels the need to write about who she might have been if she stayed.
This story is set in the Mennonite community in Manitoba. A farm wife near death at an old age tells the story of a boy she met, and refused, as a girl. It is quite short but paints a good picture of a religious community and this particular woman.
We get so few stories about Mennonites or the Amish. Their world is rarely talked about although there is quite a large community in Sarasota, FL and I see they do have their own publishers and books.
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