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Title:All My Puny Sorrows
Author:Miriam Toews
Book Format:Hardcover
Book Edition:First Edition
Pages:Pages: 321 pages
Published:April 15th 2014 by Knopf Canada
Categories:Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Contemporary. Literary Fiction

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Miriam Toews is beloved for her irresistible voice, for mingling laughter and heartwrenching poignancy like no other writer. In her most passionate novel yet, she brings us the riveting story of two sisters, and a love that illuminates life.

You won’t forget Elf and Yoli, two smart and loving sisters. Elfrieda, a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to die. Yolandi, divorced, broke, sleeping with the wrong men as she tries to find true love: she desperately wants to keep her older sister alive. Yoli is a beguiling mess, wickedly funny even as she stumbles through life struggling to keep her teenage kids and mother happy, her exes from hating her, her sister from killing herself and her own heart from breaking.

But Elf’s latest suicide attempt is a shock: she is three weeks away from the opening of her highly anticipated international tour. Her long-time agent has been calling and neither Yoli nor Elf’s loving husband knows what to tell him. Can she be nursed back to “health” in time? Does it matter? As the situation becomes ever more complicated, Yoli faces the most terrifying decision of her life.

All My Puny Sorrows, at once tender and unquiet, offers a profound reflection on the limits of love, and the sometimes unimaginable challenges we experience when childhood becomes a new country of adult commitments and responsibilities. In her beautifully rendered new novel, Miriam Toews gives us a startling demonstration of how to carry on with hope and love and the business of living even when grief loads the heart.

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Original Title: All My Puny Sorrows
ISBN: 0345808002 (ISBN13: 9780345808004)
Edition Language: English
Literary Awards: Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee (2014), Wellcome Book Prize Nominee (2015), Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction (2015), Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize (2014), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2015) Rathbones Folio Prize Nominee (2015)

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For me this book was amazing. Usually books of fiction fall short for me, and so when I run across one that is superb I want to give it the acclaim I think it deserves. It was a roller-coaster ride. Very, very sad and then when I couldnt stand another second the author had me laughing. The humor is ironic. We laugh and cry at today's world. The humor focuses upon our whole contemporary lifestyle. We have made such medical advances and yet our medical institutions fail us. Why? It has to be us

I have read a lot of positive reviews and comments about Miriam Toews novels but until now have not read any of them. I now understand why so many people are impressed by her writing. I cant put my finger on only one or two specific reasons that make her writing special. In All My Puny Sorrows I felt that it was a unique blend of many things that makes her writing exceptional. The fact that Toews has a wide following both within her home country of Canada and around the world demonstrates how

If someone you loved wanted you to help them die to avoid unavoidable pain, would you? If you knew they would find a way to do it no matter what, and that way would be painful, and terrifying, and they would be all alone, would you? If they asked you directly, more than once; if it was the one, single thing they wanted from you and it was within your power to give, would you?Does the fact that the unavoidable pain is psychological not physical in origin change your mind? These are the questions

I loved this book hard. All My Puny Sorrows is both incredibly moving and a page turner, because despite so much talk of death, there is so much LIFE in this book. So much painful, magnificent life, and so much love. The book has a pulse, which strengthens and weakens with perfect pacing so you get a little time to breathe before the next plunge into the characters' dilemmas. One of my favourite parts of the book is when the narrator (Yolandi) moves from resignation to anger flailing, explosive

Miriam Toews, wow, what rock was I hiding under? She took me by the hand and held me tight through this amazing tale of love and grief. I laughed and cried my eyes out.

I had never heard of Miriam Toews before this month's book club, but we had two Canadians host and that was the theme of the authors they picked. As is the tendency, I went against the grain--most people disliked this book whereas I really enjoyed it. But that's better than the alternative, I suppose.Right before I started reading this, I resurrected this band that I like. As is my wont, I played only the songs that I like, and played the hell out of them. The band is The Antlers, and the songs

Miriam has become a friend, so I will have to file this under an appreciation rather than an impartial review, but I admired her work long before I met her. She has an inimitable voice that is wise and funny and always unflinching. Ive seen her described as the queen of voice but I think the queen of heart is more accurate. In spite of terrible loss in her own family, she has a furious and abiding love of life that is apparent in every word she writes.This is a book I would have liked to devour