Swing Low
A Life
From the bestselling author of Women Talking, All My Puny Sorrows, and A Complicated Kindness, and Women Talking comes an extraordinary memoir about her father and his struggle with manic depression.
One morning, Mel Toews put on his coat and hat and walked out of town, prepared to die. A loving husband and father, faithful member of the Mennonite church, and immensely popular school teacher, he was a pillar of his close-knit community. Yet after a lifetime of struggle, he could no longer face the darkness of manic depression. In Swing Low, his daughter Miriam recounts Mel's life as she imagines he would have told it, right up to the day he took his final walk. A gracefully written and…
$21.00
September 5, 2017
Miriam Toews is the author of eight bestselling novels: Fight Night, Women Talking, All My Puny Sorrows, Irma Voth, The Flying Troutmans, A Complicated Kindness, A Boy of Good Breeding, and Summer of My Amazing Luck, and one work of non-fiction, Swing Low: A Life. She is a 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 Marian Engel/Timothy Findley Award. She lives in Toronto.
A Truce That Is Not Peace
Miriam Toews
Fight Night
Miriam Toews
Women Talking
Miriam Toews
The Flying Troutmans
Miriam Toews
Irma Voth
Miriam Toews
All My Puny Sorrows
Miriam Toews
A Boy of Good Breeding
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Summer of My Amazing Luck
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Swing Low
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A Complicated Kindness
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On Consolation
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Who's Afraid of Gender?
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The Certainty Illusion
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How to Calm Your Mind
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Letters
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Meditations for Mortals
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Mind the Science
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I Heard There Was A Secret Chord
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Rough Magic
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Releasing the Mother Load
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Supercommunicators
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Mind Over Matter
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Strangers to Ourselves
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One Sunny Afternoon
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Generation Dread
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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Knife
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Jennie's Boy
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Burning Questions
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Paper Trails
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Mistakes to Run With
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A Private Spy
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The Bookseller of Florence
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Half-Bads in White Regalia
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In a Time of Distance
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Through the Garden
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Letters of Note: New York City
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Letters of Note: Sex
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Burning Boy
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