All My Puny Sorrows. Poster of the 2021 movie and cover of the 2014 book
VS3
All My Puny Sorrows
Miriam Toews, 2014
movie vs book
Michael McGowan, 2021

The story of two Mennonite sisters who have left their strict religious upbringing behind. While one sibling struggles in love and life, the other is a world-famous concert pianist obsessed with ending her life.


Women Talking. Poster of the 2022 movie and cover of the 2018 book
VS3
Women Talking
Miriam Toews, 2018
movie vs book
Sarah Polley, 2022

Eight Mennonite women gather one evening in a hay loft for a private meeting. Each of these women, along with more than a hundred other females in their colony, has endured nightly druggings and rapes at the hands of their colony’s men, whom they believe to be demonic beings sent to punish them for their crimes.