Confronting demons in a Mennonite colony
IT WAS A HISTORIC—AND HORRIFYING—CASE OF GASLIGHTING. One hundred thirty Mennonite women and children were drugged and raped in their Bolivian colony over a period of four years, starting in 2005. Their abusers, men in their own community, told the victims, 3 to 60 years old, that their attacks had been perpetrated by ghosts.
Miriam Toews fictionalizes this ugly chapter of history in her latest
