'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. Marking the first time Toews has written her own life in nonfiction, 'A Truce That Is Not Peace' explores the uneasy pact every creative person makes with memory.
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- 4th Estate
- ISBN
- 9780008722883