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- A complicated kindness : a novel / by Toews, Miriam,1964-author.;
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- Subjects: Teenage girls; Fathers and daughters; Maternal deprivation; Problem families; Mennonites;
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- Fight night / by Toews, Miriam,1964-author.;
Set in Toronto, 'Fight Night' by Miriam Toews unspools the pain, love, laughter, and above all, will to live a good life across three generations of women in a close-knit family. Toews lives in Toronto, ON. From the author of 'Women Talking', 'A Complicated Kindness', and 'All My Punny Sorrows'. Book Club.- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Grandmothers; Women; Mothers and daughters;
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- All my puny sorrows / by Toews, Miriam,1964-author.;
Elfrieda, a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to die. Yolandi, divorced, broke, sleeping with the wrong men as she tries to find true love: she desperately wants to keep her older sister alive. But Elf's latest suicide attempt is a shock: she is three weeks away from the opening of her highly anticipated international tour. Can she be nursed back to "health" in time? Does it matter? As the situation becomes ever more complicated, Yoli faces the most terrifying decision of her life.- Subjects: Fiction.; Sisters; Suicidal behavior; Sisters.; Suicidal behavior.; Roman.; Amerikanisches Englisch.;
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- A truce that is not peace / by Toews, Miriam,1964-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."An astonishing masterwork from one of our most renowned and acclaimed writers, telling a piece of her own story in nonfiction for the first time. "Why do you write?" the organizer of a literary event in Mexico City asks Miriam Toews. Each attempted answer from Toews -- all of them unsatisfactory to the organizer -- surfaces new layers of grief, guilt, and futility connected to her sister's suicide. She has been keeping up, she realizes, a decades-old 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. Marking the first time Toews has written her own life in nonfiction, A Truce That Is Not Peace explores the uneasy pact every creative person makes with memory. Wildly inventive yet masterfully controlled; slyly casual yet momentous; wrenching and joyful; hilarious and humane -- this is Miriam Toews at her dazzling best, remaking her world and inventing an astonishing new literary form to contain it"--- Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Toews, Miriam, 1964-; Toews, Miriam, 1964-; Authorship.; Bereavement; Siblings of suicide victims; Sisters; Novelists, Canadian (English);
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- Women talking : a novel / by Toews, Miriam,1964-author.;
"A major work by one of our most beloved and esteemed writers, the novel is based on real events that happened between 2005 and 2009 in a remote Mennonite community where more than 100 girls and women were drugged unconscious and raped in the night by what they were told were "ghosts" or "demons." Women Talking is an imagined response to these real events. It takes place over 48 hours, as eight women hide in a hayloft while the men are in a nearby town posting bail for the perpetrators. They have come together to debate, on behalf of all the women and children in the community, whether to stay or leave before the men return. Taking minutes is the one man invited by the women to witness the conversation--a former outcast whose own surprising story is revealed as the women talk. By turns poignant, furious, witty, acerbic, tender, devastating, and heartbreaking, the voices in this extraordinary novel are unforgettable."--- Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Mennonite women; Women; Rape victims;
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