All My Puny Sorrows
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Book Overview
A New York Times 2015 Holiday Gift Guide selection.
Elf and Yoli are sisters. While on the surface Elfrieda's is an enviable life (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 own 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 comedy as it is tragedy, a goodbye grin from the friend who taught you how to live.Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1940450713
ISBN13:9781940450711
Release Date:July 2015
Publisher:McSweeney's
Length:330 Pages
Weight:0.94 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.4" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
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Sorrows Expelled
Published by Jake , 5 years ago
I knew what the book was about from jump. I was attracted to this book due to its dark premise of suicide. The book shows the struggles of a family pertaining to one suicidal member. The story teases, and ultimately enough is a story about life just as much a death.
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