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Women Talking

Miriam Toews

A profound, unsettling novel from the award-winning author of All My Puny Sorrows.

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Fight Night

Miriam Toews

'Sets standards for grandmotherly swearing and outspokenness I can never hope to match. Go Grandma Elvira!' Margaret Atwood

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Women Talking

Miriam Toews,Miriam Toews

A profound, unsettling novel from the award-winning author of All My Puny Sorrows, soon to be a major film starring Frances McDormand, Rooney Mara and Ben Whishaw.

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A Complicated Kindness

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A novel of fierce originality and brilliance from the celebrated Canadian novelist, author of The Flying Troutmans and All My Puny Sorrows.

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All My Puny Sorrows

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A story of sisters, suicide and how to carry on with hope when grief loads the heart.

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Silence and Rage in Miriam Toews’s Mennonite Novels

Rita Dirks

This book focuses on the work of Miriam Toews, which gives voice to generations of Mennonite women who have been silenced as part of the official Mennonite story. Rita Dirks…

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A Boy of Good Breeding: A Novel

Miriam Toews

First edition published in Canada by Stoddart Publishing Co. Limited in 1998 –Title page verso.

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Fight Night

Miriam Toews

Poignant, hilarious and deeply moving, Fight Night is a girl’s love letter to the women raising her and a tribute to one family’s fighting spirit.

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Women Talking

Miriam Toews

Published in 2019 by arrangement with Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc. –Title page verso.

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Fight Night

Miriam Toews

Poignant, hilarious and deeply moving, Fight Night is a girl’s love letter to the women raising her and a tribute to one family’s fighting spirit.

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Summer of My Amazing Luck: A Novel

Miriam Toews

By the author of The Flying Troutmans –Dust jacket.

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The Flying Troutmans: A Novel

Miriam Toews

And Min’s two kids, Logan and Thebes, are not talking and talking way too much, respectively. When Hattie receives a phone call from eleven-year-old Thebes, begging her to return to…

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Fight Night: ‘A Gem: humour and hope in the face of suffering’ Observer

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Poignant, hilarious and deeply moving, Fight Night is a girl’s love letter to the women raising her and a tribute to one family’s fighting spirit.

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Summer of My Amazing Luck

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Toews’ debut novel, written with her signature wit and compassion, published in the UK for the first time.

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Swing Low: A Life

Miriam Toews

A compassionate recounting of a man’s battle with…

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A Complicated Kindness: A Novel

Miriam Toews

The story of an eccentric, loving family that falls apart as each member lands on a collision course with the only community any of them have ever known. –

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A Boy of Good Breeding

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A wonderfully warm, witty and wise novel of small-town dreams and eccentric families from the award-winning author of A Complicated Kindness.

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Irma Voth

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A critically acclaimed story of love, longing, and dark family secrets from one of Canada’s most-loved authors.

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Swing Low

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An absorbing and imaginative memoir of manic depression by one of Canada’s bestselling authors.

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The Flying Troutmans

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A heartbreaking and funny story of a family in search of itself, from one of Canada’s bestselling and best-loved authors.

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Fight Night

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Poignant, hilarious and deeply moving, Fight Night is a girl’s love letter to the women raising her and a tribute to one family’s fighting spirit.

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Women Talking

Miriam Toews

Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Sarah Polley, starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, and Jessie Buckley, with Ben Wishaw and Frances McDormand.

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All My Puny Sorrows

Miriam Toews

From the bestselling author of Women Talking, a wrenchingly honest, darkly funny novel (Entertainment Weekly).

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Fight Night

Miriam Toews

From the bestselling author of Women Talking and All My Puny Sorrows, a compassionate, darkly humorous, and deeply human new novel about three generations of women.

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Lives Lived, Lives Imagined: Landscapes of Resilience in the Works of Miriam Toews

Sabrina Reed

Perceptive, controversial, topical, and achingly funny, Miriam Toews’s books have earned her a place at the forefront of Canadian literature. In this first monograph on Toews’s work, Sabrina Reed examines…

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