Six books about women working together

Sarah Davis-Goff was born and raised in Dublin. Her writing has been published in The Irish Times, The Guardian, and LitHub.

Silent City is her second novel.

At CrimeReads Davis-Goff tagged six books about women working together, including:

Women Talking by Miriam Toews

A group of Mennonite women living in rural Bolivia realize that some of them have been having the same bad dream and then waking up stiff, sore, sometimes bleeding. They then realize they haven’t been dreaming at all; in fact they and some of the children are being attacked at night, drugged and raped by some of the men living in their community. When it becomes clear that the perpetrator’s lives are in danger, only then do the other men act to ensure their safety by allowing the rapists to be arrested and brought away.

The women have a limited time to decide what to do before the men are brought home on bail; should they stay and fight, or try to leave? What do they owe the community, their faith, their children and their souls?

Read about the other entries on the list.

Women Talking is among Amanda Montei's seven novels that explore consent and coercion and Anjanette Delgado's seven books for when your life has radically changed.

--Marshal Zeringue