Jorge said he wasn't coming back until I learned how to be a better wife . . . But before he drove off he gave me a new flashlight with triple C batteries and I'm grateful for it because this is a very dark, pitch-black part of the world . . .
The closeted life of nineteen-year-old Irma Voth, recently married and more recently deserted, is turned on its head when a film crew arrives. They have come to make a movie about the strict Mennonite community in which she and her family live. Against her family's wishes, Irma takes a job on set and glimpses the wider world and a path towards something that feels like freedom.
| ISBN: | 9780571341030 |
| Publication date: | 4th July 2019 |
| Author: | Miriam Toews |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 272 pages |
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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