Saturday, December 8, 2018

ALL MY PUNY SORROWS

November 23, 2018. 

Miriam Toews. ALL MY PUNY SORROWS. The narrator's sister Elfrieda, a world-renowned concert pianist, has lost her will to live. I love Toews' writing. So convincing, it is hard to acknowledge that it is fiction. Set in Winnipeg and Toronto. 


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A GEOGRAPHY OF BLOOD

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