Miriam Toews — A Truce That Is Not Peace - with Ron Charles

"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 realizes, a decades-old internal correspondence, filling a silence she barely understands. And we, her readers, come to see that the question is as impossible to answer as deciding whether to live life as a comedy or a tragedy.Marking the first time Toews has written her own life in nonfiction, A Truce That Is Not Peace explores the uneasy pact a writer makes with memory. Wildly inventive yet masterfully controlled; slyly casual yet momentous; wrenching and joyful; hilarious and humane-this is Miriam Toews at her dazzling best, remaking her world and inventing an astonishing new literary form to contain it.PURCHASE: https://politics-prose.com/book/9781639734740?ic_referral=pEjoVE2XNe-sAN9QTtO07AeaZktFqSSQL7676QgJzukwM9uj39GL07nRLA7WpCzX7puiCaeNaN68wuDxaNzwvoTjFcvoGCKWeZWXYoFtapnQFmSBhbhiey50bu5fdE_0vihwpooMiriam Toews is the author of the bestselling novels All My Puny Sorrows, Summer of My Amazing Luck, A Boy of Good Breeding, A Complicated Kindness, The Flying Troutmans, Irma Voth, Fight Night, 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.Toews is in conversation with Ron Charles. Charles writes about books for The Washington Post. He is also the book critic for CBS Sunday Morning.