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In this breathtaking memoir of stunning emotional force and electrifying honesty, one of Canada’s most iconic writers tells her own story for the first time.

Why do you write? the organizer of a literary event in Mexico City asks Miriam Toews. Each attempt at an answer from Toewsall unsatisfactory to the organizersurfaces new layers of grief, guilt, and futility connected to her sisters suicide more than fifteen years ago. She has been keeping up, she realizes, an internal correspondence with her beloved sibling, attempting to fill a silence she can barely comprehend. As Toews turns to face that silence, we come to see that the question why I write is as impossible to answer as deciding whether to live life as a comedy or a tragedy.
A masterwork of non-fiction, A Truce That Is Not Peace explores the uneasy pact every creative person makes with memory. Wildly original yet intimately, powerfully precise; momentous, hilarious, wrenching, and joyfulthis is Miriam Toews at her dazzling best, remaking her personal world and inventing a brilliant literary form to hold it.

Hardcover | 192 pages | 5.18″ x 8.00″