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Miriam Toews with Aidan Flax-Clark: A Truce That Is Not Peace
Manage episode 505561410 series 67014
In this episode of Library Talks, Miriam Toews, the internationally bestselling author of Women Talking and Fight Night discusses writing about her own life in nonfiction for the first time.
Miriam Toews had written nine books, but when the organizer of a literary festival prompted her to answer the question “Why do you write?” Toews found that every attempted response only proved that the question might not be possible to answer. Her new book, A Truce That Is Not Peace, is a memoir of the will to write and a surfacing of new layers of guilt, grief, and futility connected to her sister’s suicide. It explores the uneasy pact a writer makes with memory and the silences in her family she struggles to understand.
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Manage episode 505561410 series 67014
In this episode of Library Talks, Miriam Toews, the internationally bestselling author of Women Talking and Fight Night discusses writing about her own life in nonfiction for the first time.
Miriam Toews had written nine books, but when the organizer of a literary festival prompted her to answer the question “Why do you write?” Toews found that every attempted response only proved that the question might not be possible to answer. Her new book, A Truce That Is Not Peace, is a memoir of the will to write and a surfacing of new layers of guilt, grief, and futility connected to her sister’s suicide. It explores the uneasy pact a writer makes with memory and the silences in her family she struggles to understand.
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