Rural Mexico becomes more than simple description

Irma Voth, Miriam ToewsFaber: €17.15 Kindle: €9.15

IRMA VOTH is a 19-year-old Canadian Mennonite living in an isolated religious community in rural Mexico. She is an outcast, shunned by her father for disobeying his strict rules and marrying Jorge, a “greasy narco” she met at a rodeo.

What’s more, the novel opens with Irma doubly abandoned: Jorge has left her and refuses to return until she learns “how to be a better wife”.