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Link to VICE article on Mennonites in Bolivia

Posted on August 8, 2013 by doradueck
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August 19, 2013 update: Please read this interview with journalist Jean Friedman-Rudovsky in connection with the article below. It’s a good and frank look at how Jean worked at the story; it also offers some suggestions and signs of hope.

The Ghost Rapes of Bolivia | VICE United States www.vice.com For a while, the residents of Manitoba Colony thought demons were raping the town’s women. There was no other explanation. No way of explaining how a woman could wake up with blood and semen stains sm… Continue reading →

Posted in Current events, Mennonite | Tagged Jean Friedman-Rudovsky, Mennonites in Bolivia, The Ghost Rapes of Bolivia, VICE magazine | 3 Replies

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Previous books include the award winning novel THIS HIDDEN THING (Manitoba Book of the Year 2011) and short story collection WHAT YOU GET AT HOME.
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High Plains Award for short fiction 2013

Book of the Year, Manitoba 2011. "mind-and-heart catching"

Recent Essays & Stories

"Burial Grounds," essay at Prairie Fire, Spring 2020. "On the Memory Set," essay in The New Quarterly, Winter 2020. "Mother and Child" in the anthology "Body and Soul" (Caitlin Press, 2019). "Mother and Child" in The New Quarterly, spring 2018. "A Weekend at the Lake" in Prairie Fire, winter 2018. "Mask," a novella, in Rhubarb's anthology "Nine Mennonite Stories," 2017.

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