An Evening with Miriam Toews (A Truce That Is Not Peace)

Name: An Evening with Miriam Toews (A Truce That Is Not Peace)
Start: 2025-10-16T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-10-16T20:00:00-05:00
Location: McNally Robinson Booksellers, 1120 Grant Avenue

Schedule

Thu Oct 16 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

McNally Robinson Booksellers, 1120 Grant Avenue | Winnipeg, MB

Join Miriam Toews as she returns to Winnipeg to celebrate her new book, A Truce That Is Not Peace (Knopf Canada). Featuring live music and questions from Christine Fellows and John Samson Fellows.
https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9781039056206/miriam-toews/a-truce-that-is-not-peace
This event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream.: https://youtube.com/live/HA-SxUDiM6g
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“Why do you write?” the organizer of a literary event in Mexico City asks Miriam Toews. Each attempt at an answer from Toews—all unsatisfactory to the organizer—surfaces new layers of grief, guilt, and futility connected to her sister’s suicide more than fifteen years ago. She has been keeping up, she realizes, an internal correspondence with her beloved sibling, attempting to fill a silence she can barely comprehend. As Toews turns to face that silence, we come to see that the question “why I write” is as impossible to answer as deciding whether to live life as a comedy or a tragedy.
A masterwork of non-fiction, A Truce That Is Not Peace explores the uneasy pact every creative person makes with memory. Wildly original yet intimately, powerfully precise; momentous, hilarious, wrenching, and joyful—this is Miriam Toews at her dazzling best, remaking her personal world and inventing a brilliant literary form to hold it.
Miriam Toews is the author of the internationally acclaimed and bestselling novels Fight Night, Women Talking, All My Puny Sorrows, Irma Voth, The Flying Troutmans, A Complicated Kindness, A Boy of Good Breeding, and Summer of My Amazing Luck, and one prior work of non-fiction, Swing Low: A Life. She is the winner of numerous awards, including the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Libris Award for Fiction, the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the Writers’ Trust Engel Findley Award. Several of her novels have been made into feature films, including All My Puny Sorrows and the Oscar-nominated Women Talking. Miriam Toews lives in Toronto.