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Swing Low: A Life

by Miriam Toews

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From the bestselling author of A Complicated Kindness comes an extraordinary memoir about her father and his struggle with manic depression. Now in a stunning new package.     One morning, Mel Toews put on his coat ... Read more
From the bestselling author of A Complicated Kindness comes an extraordinary memoir about her father and his struggle with manic depression. Now in a stunning new package.


     One morning, Mel Toews put on his coat and hat and walked out of town, prepared to die. A loving husband and father, faithful member of the Mennonite church, and immensely popular school teacher, he was a pillar of his close-knit community. Yet after a lifetime of struggle, he could no longer face the darkness of manic depression. In Swing Low, his daughter Miriam recounts Mel''s life as she imagines he would have told it, right up to the day he took his final walk. A gracefully written and compassionate recounting of a man''s battle with depression in a small Mennonite community, Swing Low is a moving meditation on illness, family, faith and love. Less

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File size8 X 5.3 X 0.8 in
Print pages240
PublisherKnopf Canada
Publication date September 5, 2017
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780676977189
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Miriam Toews
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Miriam Toews (born 1964) OM is a Canadian writer, best known for her novels A Complicated Kindness (2004) and All My Puny Sorrows (2014). She has won a number of literary prizes including the Governor...

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