A Truce That Is Not Peace
by Miriam Toews
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Pub Date Aug 26 2025 | Archive Date Aug 31 2025
Bloomsbury USA | Bloomsbury Publishing
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Description
"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.
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9781639734740 |
PRICE | $26.99 (USD) |
PAGES | 192 |