Swing Low
A Life
Nonfiction, Family & Relationships, Family Relationships, Death/Grief/Bereavement, Health & Well Being, Psychology, Biography & Memoir
| Author: | Miriam Toews | ISBN: | 9780062070173 |
| Publisher: | Harper Perennial | Publication: | September 6, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Harper Perennial | Language: | English |
| Author: | Miriam Toews |
| ISBN: | 9780062070173 |
| Publisher: | Harper Perennial |
| Publication: | September 6, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Harper Perennial |
| Language: | English |
“Audacious, original and profoundly moving . . . . Healing is a likely outcome of a book imbued with the righteous anger, compassion and humanity of Swing Low.” —Globe and Mail (Canada)
Reverberating with emotional power, authenticity, and insight*,* Swing Low is Miriam Toews's daring and deeply affecting memoir ofher father’s struggle with manic depression in a small Mennonite community inrural 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.
“Audacious, original and profoundly moving . . . . Healing is a likely outcome of a book imbued with the righteous anger, compassion and humanity of Swing Low.” —Globe and Mail (Canada)
Reverberating with emotional power, authenticity, and insight*,* Swing Low is Miriam Toews's daring and deeply affecting memoir ofher father’s struggle with manic depression in a small Mennonite community inrural 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.
