![]() ![]() Swiv has been kicked out of school for fighting and is being homeschooled by Grandma. Her previous novel, Women Talking – a movie of which is on the way later this year, starring Jessie Buckley, Ben Whishaw and Claire Foy – was an imagined response to a horrifying true story: a series of rapes that occurred among an isolated Mennonite community in Bolivia between 20.Īuthor CL Taylor: 'Richard E Grant's memoir is slowly breaking my heart' 04 May, 2023 Monsters by Claire Dederer asks what we should do about art made by awful men 04 May, 2023 Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson is a mesmerising Peckham love story 04 May, 2023 All My Puny Sorrows, her 2014 novel which has recently been released as a film, is largely autobiographical, as are elements of all her novels, particularly her new one, Fight Night. She writes from the heart and from her own experiences. Losing her older sister, who took her own life almost exactly 12 years later, only stoked Toews’s urge to keep going, in the hope of helping others. “I would prefer he were alive and not write the things I write, but when he died I was free, in a sense.” ![]() But her father’s suicide in 1998 “freed” her, she says, to probe her conservative Mennonite upbringing in a small town near Winnipeg, Canada. ![]() Miriam Toews would rather not write the sorts of books she does – which is to say, bleakly beautiful novels, darkly funny about mental illness, suicide, patriarchal repression and domestic abuse. ![]()
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