PreviewsMiriam Toews

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  A Truce That Is Not Peace

  Miriam Toews

  In an innovative form combining quotes, letters, memories, daily accounts and to-do lists, researched notes, and explorations of wind, Toews explores the connection between her writing and her relationship to her sister in wrenching and joyful and angry and beautiful and candid ways, in her unmistakable voice.

  (Knopf Canada, $34.00 Hardcover, 192 pages, ISBN: 978-10-39056-20-6)  

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  Fight Night

  Miriam Toews

  Nine-year-old Swiv tells it like it is when writing to her absent father about her life. Expelled from school, Swiv spends her days with her wild and wacky grandmother while her mother, pregnant and exhausted, barely makes it through rehearsals and medical appointments. Love overflows in this latest warm and wise novel by the incomparable Miriam Toews.

  (Knopf Canada, $29.95 Hardcover, 264 pages, ISBN: 978-07-35282-39-1)