A Truce That Is Not Peace

Miriam Toews

eBook - 2025

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, AutobiographyNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER, TIME, THE WASHINGTON POST, THE WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS, NPR, LIT HUB, ELECTRIC LITERATURE, AND BOOKPAGE"Revelatory." -New York Times Book Review"Essential reading. A companion for turbulent times." -Laura van den Berg"Nothing short of a masterpiece." -The San Francisco ChronicleInternationally bestselling author Miriam Toews' memoir of the will to write-a work of disobedient memory, humor, and exquisite craft set against a content-hungry, prose-stuffed society."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... more