A truce that is not peace / Miriam Toews.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Toews, Miriam, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Toews, Miriam, 1964-.

Toews, Miriam.

Toews, Miriam, 1964---Family.

Siblings of suicide victims--Biography.

Siblings of suicide victims.

Sisters--Death--Psychological aspects.

Sisters.

Bereavement--Psychological aspects.

Bereavement.

Authorship.

Novelists, Canadian--21st century--Biography.

Novelists, Canadian.

authorship.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

180 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2025.

Summary:

"'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 a writer 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."--Amazon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-180).

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9781639734740

1639734740

OCLC:

1478324892