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Irma Voth
- Author
- Miriam Toews
- Narrator
- Erin Moon
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish Date
- 1 April 2016
- Run Time
- 7 hours 36 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
"Toews is an artist of escape; she always finds a way for her characters, trapped by circumstance, to liberate themselves."—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker
Jorge said he wasn't coming back until I learned how to be a better wife …
The life of nineteen-year-old Irma Voth, recently married and more recently deserted, is turned on its head when a film crew arrives 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 toward something that feels like freedom.
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Details
- Author
- Miriam Toews
- Narrator
- Erin Moon
- Duration
- 7 hours 36 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 April 2016
- ISBN
- 9781501931031
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
"Toews is an artist of escape; she always finds a way for her characters, trapped by circumstance, to liberate themselves."—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker Jorge said he wasn't coming back until I learned how to be a better wife … The life of nineteen-year-old Irma Voth, recently married and more recently deserted, is turned on its head when a film crew arrives 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 toward something that feels like freedom.
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