Hear them roar A war cry for rebellious women told by the granddaughter of a wise, bawdy and irrepressibly defiant survivor

iriam Toews’s novels are often described as tragicomedies, populated by war survivors, and set in or around Mennonite communities where Toews, too, grew up. In works such as All My Puny Sorrows, following the relationship of two sisters, and Women Talking, about cloistered women who gather in secret after a series of sexual assaults, she grapples with the humiliations of motherhood, the burdens of sisterhood, abuse, grief and suicide: a wound from her own life