The winner of several awards, Swing Low: A Life 'engages' readers due to what a Publishers Weekly reviewer described as Toews's ability to present 'a strong and realistic sense of a man who chose to use the little energy he had to construct a safe world for his family.'īorn in Steinbach, Manitoba, Toews was raised in a Mennonite family where her parents valued education, both having earned master's degree. In addition, she has authored a moving memoir of her father, a teacher who suffered from manic depression throughout his life and ultimately committed suicide in 1998. SidelightsĬanadian novelist and journalist Miriam Toews is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Summer of My Amazing Luck, A Boy of Good Breeding, and A Complicated Kindness, the last the winner of Canada's 2004 Governor General's award. AdaptationsĪ Complicated Kindness was adapted as an audiobook, BTC Audiobooks (Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada), 2005. Contributor to periodicals, including New York Times Magazine, Geist, Prairie Fire, Saturday Night, and This American Life. Swing Low: A Life (memoir), Stoddart (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 2000.Ī Complicated Kindness, Counterpoint (New York, NY), 2004.Īuthor of freelance documentaries for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio.

Summer of My Amazing Luck, Turnstone Press (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada), 1996.Ī Boy of Good Breeding, Stoddart (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1998, Arcade (New York, NY), 2001.

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