š JANUARY IN BOOKS: Women Talking, Miriam Toews I liked this way more than I thought! The prose was lovely, and I think using dialogue as a vehicle for discourse/argumentation was smart and elegantly done. Thereās been a bit of debate over the presence of the male narrator; in my opinion, I donāt think it takes away from the āfeministā narrative necessarily. The narratorās gender nonconformity is brought to our attention multiple times ā some of it is subtextual ā and he is an outcast in the village, so there are reasons why he would throw his lot in with the women. That said, I do think his involvement could have been troubled and interrogated a bit more by the story. I wasnāt particularly interested in his feelings for Ona, for example, and his interjections felt tedious / unnecessary at times. All in all an interesting read, though!
ooh excited to check these out!