We're back with another episode of the Short Stacks, our shorter conversations with authors about their process and

their books. I'm your host Tracy Thomas. Our guest today is award-winning novelist

Miriam Taves, author of eight books including all my puny sorrows and a complicated kindness.

Today we'll be discussing her most recent book women talking but before we get to that

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listening through Apple Podcasts. Okay our guest today is Miriam Taves a

Canadian novelist we're talking about Taves's newest release, Women Talking, which was inspired by true events that took place in the mid to late 2000s,

where women of a menonite colony were drugged and raped in their sleep by men of their community.

As Taves says in the book, quote, in their community.

As Tave says in the book, quote,

women talking is both a reaction through fiction

to these true life events and an act of female imagination. I'll let Miriam take it from here.

Okay Miriam, thank you so much for being here on the stacks with us.

Thank you for having me.

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