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Original Title:	All My Puny Sorrows
ISBN:	0345808002 (ISBN13: 9780345808004)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee (2014), Wellcome Book Prize Nominee (2015), Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction (2015), Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize (2014), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2015) Rathbones Folio Prize Nominee (2015)

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Miriam Toews is beloved for her irresistible voice, for mingling laughter and heartwrenching poignancy like no other writer. In her most passionate novel yet, she brings us the riveting story of two sisters, and a love that illuminates life. 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.

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Title	:	All My Puny Sorrows
Author	:	Miriam Toews
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 321 pages
Published	:	April 15th 2014 by Knopf Canada
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Contemporary. Literary Fiction

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This novel dares you not to love it. Its so awfully horribly unremittingly sad yet open-hearted and quirky and forlorn and it wags its tail furiously, all the time. This novel is all about suicide, to be or not to be. In this case, the genius concert pianist sister has opted for NOT TO BE and the narrator is trying to put the case for TO BE. And its kind of not a novel either, its a the high-end literary version of the misery memoir, like Ugly by Constance Briscoe (her mother sued over that one,

For me this book was amazing. Usually books of fiction fall short for me, and so when I run across one that is superb I want to give it the acclaim I think it deserves. It was a roller-coaster ride. Very, very sad and then when I couldnt stand another second the author had me laughing. The humor is ironic. We laugh and cry at today's world. The humor focuses upon our whole contemporary lifestyle. We have made such medical advances and yet our medical institutions fail us. Why? It has to be us

A laughing moment... Yoli says to her sister Elf that she's a terrible wife ... she tells her sister she cheated on her husband and is just a whore. Elf... Being who 'she' is, says... "Haven't I taught you anything"? "there is no such thing as a whore".I smiled reading this!Toews writing is superb.....viva-la-melty' richness.... (deeply satisfying as a reader to be in the care of this author) A very sad story.... told with tenderness... and spunky style....starting from the first page...( the

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThis is the best book I've read all year. The mastery of heart ripping is ripe in this. As someone who suffers from Depression it was interesting to read. The author really lets you see both sides of depression so well. On one hand I was on the families side and furious at Elf for being so damn selfish. Then by the next chapter I would be in Elf's

I had never heard of Miriam Toews before this month's book club, but we had two Canadians host and that was the theme of the authors they picked. As is the tendency, I went against the grain--most people disliked this book whereas I really enjoyed it. But that's better than the alternative, I suppose.Right before I started reading this, I resurrected this band that I like. As is my wont, I played only the songs that I like, and played the hell out of them. The band is The Antlers, and the songs

This was a wonderfully written book. Yet, as well as it was written, it was also a heavy read I had to put down frequently and take a step back from. It's a story about 2 sisters who love each other dearly, Elfrieda and Yoli. And as much as that love runs through the novel, it's not strong enough to defy the feelings of depression and darkness one sister feels, to the point of trying to commit suicide several times. It's Yoli's story and her struggle with guilt for not being able to pull her

The story of Brittany Maynard, the terminally ill woman in Oregon who committed suicide earlier this month after making her intention public, forces us to consider or repress wrenching questions about how life ends. As that discussion continues in homes, legislatures and places of worship, please make room for All My Puny Sorrows, by Canadian writer Miriam Toews.Ive been in love with Toews since 2004, when she published A Complicated Kindness, a wincingly funny story about a 16-year-old girl