All My Puny Sorrows by Toews, Miriam
Miriam Toews
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All My Puny Sorrows -- Miriam Toews - Paperback


From the bestselling author of Women Talking, a wrenchingly honest, darkly funny novel (Entertainment Weekly).

Elf and Yoli are sisters. While on the surface Elfrieda's life is enviable (she's a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, and happily married) and Yolandi's a mess (she's divorced and broke, with two teenagers growing up too quickly), they are fiercely close-raised in a Mennonite household and sharing the hardship of Elf's desire to end her life. After Elf's latest attempt, Yoli must quickly determine how to keep her family from falling apart while facing a profound question: what do you do for a loved one who truly wants to die?

All My Puny Sorrows is a deeply personal story that is as much comedy as it is tragedy, a goodbye grin from the friend who taught you how to live.

Author: Miriam Toews
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 10/15/2019
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781635574975

About the Author
Miriam Toews is the author of seven bestselling novels, All My Puny Sorrows, Summer of My Amazing Luck, A Boy of Good Breeding, A Complicated Kindness, The Flying Troutmans, Irma Voth, and Women Talking and one work of nonfiction, Swing Low: A Life. She is winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award. She lives in Toronto.