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All My Puny Sorrows
Miriam ToewsScotiabank Giller Prize Finalist - SHORTLISTED 2014
#1 Bestselling author of A Complicated Kindness
All My Puny Sorrows won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize in 2014, and was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize the same year.
Miriam Toews is beloved for her irresistible voice, for mingling laughter & heartwrenching poignancy like no other writer. In her most passionate novel yet, she brings us the riveting story of two sisters, & a love that illuminates life.You won’t forget Elf & Yoli, two smart & 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 & 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 & unquiet, offers a profound reflection on the limits of love, & the sometimes unimaginable challenges we experience when childhood becomes a new country of adult commitments & responsibilities. In her beautifully rendered new novel, Miriam Toews gives us a startling demonstration of how to carry on with hope & love & the business of living even when grief loads the heart.
YOLI is dying to keep her sister Elf alive. It is a full-time job for this author going through a second divorce, a middle-aged mother of tee
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