Author: Miriam Toews

Title: A Truce That Is Not Peace

Binding: Hardcover

Number Of Pages: 192

Release Date: 2025-08-26

Details: "Essential reading. A companion for turbulent times." -Laura van den Berg

Internationally 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 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.

EAN: 9781639734740

Package Dimensions: Height: 8.251952 inches, Length: 5.5118 inches, Weight: 1.00089866948 pounds, Width: 0.999998 inches

Languages: en