Miriam Toews
â€œAudacious, original and profoundly moving . . . . Healing is a likely outcome of a book imbued with the righteous anger, compassion and humanity of ,Swing Low,.â€ â€”,Globe and Mail ,(Canada),Reverberating with emotional power, authenticity, and insight,,, ,Swing Low ,is Miriam Toews's daring and deeply affecting memoir of her fatherâ€™s struggle with manic depression in a small Mennonite community in rural Canada. Personal and touching, a stirring counterpart to her novel ,IrmaVoth, and reminiscent of works by Susan Cheever, Gail Caldwell, Mary Karr, and Alexandra Styron, ,Swing Low ,is an elegiac ode to a difficult life by an author drawing from the deepest well of insight,craft, and emotion.
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Swing Low: A Life