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A Boston Globe 'Best Fiction of 2014' Pick A New York Times Editors' Choice pick for the week of November 26, 2014. Included in the New Republic's Best Fiction of 2014 "I read 'All My Puny Sorrows' very recently and fell in love with Miriam Toews' work. That novel is totally unafraid of the dark wilderness of the mind and heart--seeing as it's a novel largely preoccupied with suicide--and it also somehow manages to be really funny. It felt incredibly alive to me."Elf and Yoli are sisters. While on the surface Elfrieda's life is enviable (she's a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, and happily married) and Yolandi's a mess (she's divorced and broke, with two teenagers growing up too quickly), they are fiercely close — raised in a Mennonite household and sharing the hardship of Elf's desire to end her life. After Elf's latest attempt, Yoli must quickly determine how to keep her family from falling apart, how to keep her own heart from breaking, and what it means to love someone who wants to die.
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. And this is Toews at her finest: a story that is as much a comedy as it is a tragedy, a goodbye grin from the friend who taught you how to live.
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