All My Puny Sorrows

Author: Miriam Toews

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  • : March 2014
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  • : United Kingdom
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Description

Yolanda is conflicted. Her sister Elf has battled depression for her whole adult life, and is in a psychiatric ward under permanent observation after attempting suicide - again. Yolanda has always looked up to Elf as her talented and beautiful older sister. She loves her with a fierce passion and wants to believe in the possibility of a future together, one in which Elf gets better. But it's looking unlikely and Yolanda has to decide; if the person you love is tired of living, is it kinder just to let them go? All My Puny Sorrows (a line from a Coleridge poem) is written out of Miriam Toews' personal experience and is, in some ways, a grown-up version of A Complicated Kindness, the novel that catapulted Toews to her bestselling status in Canada. This story allows Toews' beguiling narrative voice - her easy, snappy, darkly comic intimacy - to sing through.

Promotion info

A funny, serious and heart felt new novel about the biggest question of all.

Awards

Short-listed for the FOLIO PRIZE, 2015.

Author description

Miriam Toews (pronounced taves) was born in 1964 in the small Mennonite town of Steinbach, Manitoba. She has published four novels and a memoir of her father, and is the recipient of numerous literary awards including the Governor General's Award, the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award (twice), and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. In 2007 she made her screen debut in the film Luz silenciosa. She was nominated for Best Actress at Mexico's Ariel Awards for her performance.