Her most recent novel, Women Talking, portrays sexual abuse within a Mennonite colony and is her most stringent indictment of religious fundamentalism it’s also a meditation on the shifting relationship between the two sisters at the story’s core.
Swing Low: A Life and All My Puny Sorrows, based on the events surrounding the suicide of Toews’ father and sister, both portray families with serious misgivings about life in the Mennonite community, as well as close but tumultuous bonds between sisters.
Miriam Toews is the author of seven novels, many of which address themes present in A Complicated Kindness, such as family relationships and religious doubt.
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