Miriam Toews Truce That IS Not Peace HB Hardback Book Multicolor

The best memoir you will read all year NICK HORNBYThis is memoir perfection I adored it CARIAD LLOYDAn affirmation of Life in all its richness and variety remarkable CELIA PAULI would have read another thousand chapters CATHERINE NEWMANThe internationally bestselling author of Women Talking and All My Puny Sorrows, Miriam Toews, returns with a singular memoir celebrating disobedient memory, wit, writing and life. Why do you write? the organiser of a literary event in Mexico City asks Miriam Toews. Each attempted answer from Toews all of them unsatisfactory to the organiser surfaces new layers of grief, guilt and futility connected to her sisters suicide. She has been keeping up, she realises, a decadesold internal correspondence, filling a silence she barely understands. And we, her readers, come to see that the question is as impossible to answer as deciding whether to live life as a comedy or a tragedy. A Truce That Is Not Peace is the first time Toews has written about her own life in nonfiction. Wildly inventive yet masterfully controlled wrenching and joyful this is Miriam Toews at her dazzling best, remaking her world and inventing an astonishing new literary form to contain it. Tragicomic, and incredibly moving essential reading for turbulent times LAURA VAN DEN BERGA Truce That Is Not Peace is a stunner HANNAH PITTARD Miriam Toews TRUCE THAT IS NOT PEACE HB Hardback Book