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A Truce That Is Not Peace
In this breathtaking memoir of stunning emotional force and electrifying honesty, one of Canada's most iconic writers tells her own story for the first time.
âWhy do you write?â the organizer of a literary event in Mexico City asks Miriam Toews. Each attempt at an answer from Toewsâall unsatisfactory to the organizerâsurfaces new layers of grief, guilt, and futility connected to her sisterâs suicide more than fifteen years ago. She has been keeping up, she realizes, an internal correspondence with her beloved sibling, attempting to fill a silence she can barely comprehend. As Toews turns to face that silence, we come to see that the question âwhy I writeâ is as impossible to answer as deciding whether to live life as a comedy or a tragedy.
A masterwork of non-fiction, A Truce That Is Not Peace explores the uneasy pact every creative person makes with memory. Wildly original yet intimately, powerfully precise; momentous, hilarious, wrenching, and joyfulâthis is Miriam Toews at her dazzling best, remaking her personal world and inventing a brilliant literary form to hold it.
âWhy do you write?â the organizer of a literary event in Mexico City asks Miriam Toews. Each attempt at an answer from Toewsâall unsatisfactory to the organizerâsurfaces new layers of grief, guilt, and futility connected to her sisterâs suicide more than fifteen years ago. She has been keeping up, she realizes, an internal correspondence with her beloved sibling, attempting to fill a silence she can barely comprehend. As Toews turns to face that silence, we come to see that the question âwhy I writeâ is as impossible to answer as deciding whether to live life as a comedy or a tragedy.
A masterwork of non-fiction, A Truce That Is Not Peace explores the uneasy pact every creative person makes with memory. Wildly original yet intimately, powerfully precise; momentous, hilarious, wrenching, and joyfulâthis is Miriam Toews at her dazzling best, remaking her personal world and inventing a brilliant literary form to hold it.
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In this breathtaking memoir of stunning emotional force and electrifying honesty, one of Canada's most iconic writers tells her own story for the first time.
âWhy do you write?â the organizer of a literary event in Mexico City asks Miriam Toews. Each attempt at an answer from Toewsâall unsatisfactory to the organizerâsurfaces new layers of grief, guilt, and futility connected to her sisterâs suicide more than fifteen years ago. She has been keeping up, she realizes, an internal correspondence with her beloved sibling, attempting to fill a silence she can barely comprehend. As Toews turns to face that silence, we come to see that the question âwhy I writeâ is as impossible to answer as deciding whether to live life as a comedy or a tragedy.
A masterwork of non-fiction, A Truce That Is Not Peace explores the uneasy pact every creative person makes with memory. Wildly original yet intimately, powerfully precise; momentous, hilarious, wrenching, and joyfulâthis is Miriam Toews at her dazzling best, remaking her personal world and inventing a brilliant literary form to hold it.
âWhy do you write?â the organizer of a literary event in Mexico City asks Miriam Toews. Each attempt at an answer from Toewsâall unsatisfactory to the organizerâsurfaces new layers of grief, guilt, and futility connected to her sisterâs suicide more than fifteen years ago. She has been keeping up, she realizes, an internal correspondence with her beloved sibling, attempting to fill a silence she can barely comprehend. As Toews turns to face that silence, we come to see that the question âwhy I writeâ is as impossible to answer as deciding whether to live life as a comedy or a tragedy.
A masterwork of non-fiction, A Truce That Is Not Peace explores the uneasy pact every creative person makes with memory. Wildly original yet intimately, powerfully precise; momentous, hilarious, wrenching, and joyfulâthis is Miriam Toews at her dazzling best, remaking her personal world and inventing a brilliant literary form to hold it.
