Irma Voth -- New novel by Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews' latest novel is set in Mexico, among the Old Colony Mennonites, and uses Toews' own experience starring in a film about the Old Colony Mennonites, Silent Light, as material for the plot.

Read an interview with Toews about her life and writing in the Toronto Globe and Mail.

Here's a review of Irma Voth by novelist Jane Smiley, also in The Globe and Mail.

It's interesting that Toews has, again, chosen the character of a disaffected teenager for her protagonist. However, this time the Mennonite community from which this character is a refugee is far more conservative and separatist than the Steinbach in which Toews grew up.