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All My Puny Sorrows - Miriam Toews
All My Puny Sorrows
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From one of Canada's most beloved, bestselling authors who meshes laughter and tears like no other: Miriam Toews, with her wry wit and heartstopping poignancy, her irresistible voice, takes us right back to the unforgettable world of A Complicated Kindness. Two sisters in their forties, daughters... show more
From one of Canada's most beloved, bestselling authors who meshes laughter and tears like no other: Miriam Toews, with her wry wit and heartstopping poignancy, her irresistible voice, takes us right back to the unforgettable world of A Complicated Kindness. Two sisters in their forties, daughters of a "complicated" Mennonite family: Elfreida and Yolandi. Elf, happily marri
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Format: Hardcover
Publisher: McSweeney's
Pages no: 330
Edition language: English
Category:
Cultural, Book Club, Adult Fiction, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Canada, Fiction
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Reflections
Reflections rated it
5.0 Poignantly beautiful story of two sisters
text Poignantly beautiful story of two sisters
I always fall hard for the novels Miriam Toews writes and the characters she creates. A best selling author in Canada, most of her books involve individualistically inclined or exiled Mennonites balancing their traditional upbringing with the modern world in distinctive stories of personal struggle ...
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so many books, so little time
so many books, so little time rated it
5.0 All My Puny Sorrows
text All My Puny Sorrows
I've spent the last week wondering if this book really was as good as I thought it was. Can a book about suicidality and the co-existence of great pain and great gifts in one person also be healing in some way? Can moments of great humor in the storytelling escape being in some way manipulative and ...
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What I Happen to Be Reading At the Moment
What I Happen to Be Reading At the Moment rated it
4.0 All My Puny Sorrows
text All My Puny Sorrows
The first part of the novel was very strong, exploring how and why the two sisters might have grown apart and how they interact now that one specifically has wishes to end her life. The ending kind of blew it for me, but otherwise the characterizations were magnificent and the good writing did a goo...
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