All my puny sorrows / Miriam Toews.
"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."-- Publishers website.
Record details
- ISBN: 0345808002
- ISBN: 9780345808004 (hc.) :
- ISBN: 9780345808011 (tr. pb.) :
- Physical Description: 321 p. ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada ; 2014.
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General Note: | CatMonthString:july.14 Novel. |
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Genre: | Women's fiction. Canadian fiction. Psychological fiction. |
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