{"product_id":"a-truce-that-is-not-miriam-toews-9781639734740","title":"A Truce That Is Not Peace","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Essential reading. A companion for turbulent times.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Laura van den Berg\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eInternationally bestselling author Miriam Toews' memoir of the will to write-a work of disobedient memory, humor, and exquisite craft set against a content-hungry, prose-stuffed society.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Why do you write?\" the organizer of a literary event in Mexico City asks Miriam Toews. Each attempted answer from Toews-all of them unsatisfactory to the organizer-surfaces new layers of grief, guilt, and futility connected to her sister's suicide. She has been keeping up, she realizes, a decades-old internal correspondence, filling a silence she barely understands. And we, her readers, come to see that the question is as impossible to answer as deciding whether to live life as a comedy or a tragedy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarking the first time Toews has written her own life in nonfiction, \u003ci\u003eA Truce That Is Not Peace\u003c\/i\u003e explores the uneasy pact a writer makes with memory. Wildly inventive yet masterfully controlled; slyly casual yet momentous; wrenching and joyful; hilarious and humane-this is Miriam Toews at her dazzling best, remaking her world and inventing an astonishing new literary form to contain it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Miriam Toews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1639734740\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781639734740\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/26\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.51w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2025 pg. 11","brand":"Miriam Toews","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46767373254911,"sku":"9781639734740","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_71d3fcfa-287b-4987-a62e-3051c0ce0df7.jpg?v=1744169629","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-truce-that-is-not-miriam-toews-9781639734740","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}