{"product_id":"miriam-toews-a-truce-that-is-not-peace-9781639734740","title":"A Truce That Is Not Peace","description":"Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Autobiography NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER, TIME, THE WASHINGTON POST, THE WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS, NPR, LIT HUB, ELECTRIC LITERATURE, AND BOOKPAGE \"Revelatory.\" --New York Times Book Review \"Essential reading. A companion for turbulent times.\" --Laura van den Berg \"Nothing short of a masterpiece.\" --The San Francisco Chronicle 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. \"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. Marking the first time Toews has written her own life in nonfiction, A Truce That Is Not Peace 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.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53809809686870,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/miriam-toews-a-truce-that-is-not-peace-9781639734740","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}