She is winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the Libris Award. Sometimes the novels chosen are new, often they are from the backlist and occasionally re-issued from way back. All My Puny Sorrows is the latest novel from Miriam Toews, one of Canada's most beloved authors not only because her work is rich with deep human feeling and compassion but because her observations are knife-sharp and her books wickedly funny. Miriam Toews is the author of seven bestselling novels, All My Puny Sorrows, Summer of My Amazing Luck, A Boy of Good Breeding, A Complicated Kindness, The Flying Troutmans, Irma Voth, and Women Talking and one work of nonfiction, Swing Low: A Life. From the bestselling author of Women Talking, a wrenchingly honest, darkly funny novel. But to keep ourselves on our toes, we have a rule that author gender is alternated, girl-boy-girl-boy, and the continents always rotated (with occasional glitches). Available at: PICKUP ONLY at MONTAGUE LOCATION. Too good to be true? The catch is that the bookshop gets to choose what the book group reads. Each month the discussion is lively and unpretentious, with naughty snacks and plenty to drink. You don’t even have to have had read the book. The title to be read and discussed is sign-posted and on sale for the whole of the previous month (with a discount for those who make it known they intend to come) and everybody is welcome, whether first-timer, part-timer or regular-timer.

With rare exceptions such as bank holidays, the book group meets on the first Wednesday of every month at 7.30pm. Her 2004 novel 'A Complicated Kindness' was her breakthrough work, spending over a year on the Canadian bestseller lists and winning the Governor Generals Award for English Fiction. Elf and Yoli are two sisters who grew up in a Mennonite.

Summary Excerpt Reviews Read-Alikes Genres & Themes. This backlist offering from Miriam Toews is a novel about what it means to love a struggling sibling. Now past its tenth year the Crow Book Group has grown into a regular social event. Handpicked recommendations to other books that have a similar writing style or theme to All My Puny Sorrows.

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