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Elf and Yoli are sisters. While on the surface Elfrieda's life is enviable (she's a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, and happily married) and Yolandi's a mess (she's divorced and broke, with two teenagers growing up too quickly), they are fiercely close - raised in a Mennonite household and sharing the hardship of Elf's desire to end her life. After Elf's latest attempt, Yoli must quickly determine how to keep her family from falling apart, how to keep her own heart from breaking, and what it means to love someone who wants to die. All My Puny Sorrows is the latest novel from Miriam Toews, one of Canada's most beloved authors - not only because her work is rich with deep human feeling and compassion but because her observations are knife-sharp and her books wickedly funny. And this is Toews at her finest: a story that is as much a comedy as it is a tragedy, a goodbye grin from the friend who taught you how to live.
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“Irresistible…its intelligence, its honesty and, above all, its compassion provide a kind of existential balm—a comfort not unlike the sort you might find by opening a bottle of wine and having a long conversation with (yes, really) a true friend.”
— New York Times
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“[A] wrenchingly honest, darkly funny novel. (Grade: A)”
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“Touching and unexpectedly humorous.”
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“A touching tribute and a captivating novel.”
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“Thanks to the prodigious talent of author Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows is an off-kilter, frequently funny, and begrudgingly life-affirming romp through, well, death.”
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“In the crucible of [Miriam Toews’] genius, tears and laughter are ground into some magical elixir that seems like the essence of life.”
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“As jagged and ripped open as a freshly torn heart.”
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“[A] triumph in its depiction of the love the sisters share.”
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“[A] masterful, original investigation into love, loss and survival.”
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“Erin Moon narrates the story of Yolandi…Using a world-weary voice, Moon draws listeners into this world.”
— AudioFile
Awards
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A New York Times Editor’s Choice
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A Boston Globe Pick for Best in Fiction for 2014
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A New Republic Best Book of 2014 in Fiction
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About Miriam Toews
Miriam Toews is the author of several acclaimed bestselling novels and one work of nonfiction, Swing Low: A Life. She is 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 Engel/Findley Award.
About Erin Moon
Erin Moon is a professional actor and an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator of over 150 novels. She lives and records in beautiful Vancouver, Canada.