03436cam a2200541 4500 2658192745 TxAuBib 20260117120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781639734757 1639734759 B0DVT99LWW Amazon 70b07b22-b0db-4f53-bb9b-bb4bbafcd0a2 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 11810066 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Toews, Miriam. A Truce That Is Not Peace [Libby eBook]. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Summer of My Amazing Luck. A Boy of Good Breeding. A Complicated Kindness. Life and Death So Far. The Flying Troutmans. All My Puny Sorrows. Women Talking. Oscar winner. Fight Night. sisterhood. connection. swing low. Irma Voth. Writing. sister. Craft. women. funny. woman. HTML:<b>Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Autobiography</b><br /> <b><br /></b><b>NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY <i>THE NEW YORKER</i>, <i>TIME</i>, <i>THE WASHINGTON POST, THE WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS</i>, <i>NPR</i>, <i>LIT HUB</i>, <i>ELECTRIC LITERATURE</i>, AND <i>BOOKPAGE</i></b><br /> <b><br /></b><b>"Revelatory." —<i>New York Times Book Review</i><br /> "Essential reading. A companion for turbulent times." —Laura van den Berg<br /> "Nothing short of a masterpiece." —<i>The San Francisco Chronicle</i><br /> <i><br /></i>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.</b><br /> "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.<br /> Marking the first time Toews has written her own life in nonfiction, <i>A Truce That Is Not Peace</i> 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. Biography & Autobiography. Language Arts. Nonfiction. Writing. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-01-16 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=70b07b22-b0db-4f53-bb9b-bb4bbafcd0a2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=70b07b22-b0db-4f53-bb9b-bb4bbafcd0a2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)