WOMEN TALKING (Miriam Toews) - September 16/22

 Well, this clearly isn’t for me. I was really struggling through most of this because there are so many characters and I never really got a handle on most of them. Plus there’s no real plot or forward momentum, so it’s kind of boring for most of it. And yet I did enjoy certain stretches and the relatively exciting climax. But wow this should’ve been a short story. ** out of ****