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All My Puny Sorrows

Miriam Toews

Start date: November 1, 2014

Finish date: November 30, 2014

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Apr 25, 2014 Vikki VanSickle rated it it was amazing

I'll read anything by Miriam Toews, but this one resonated with me even more than usual. Toews holds nothing back and bleeds all over the page in this story of a woman dealing with her beloved older sister's numerous attempted suicides and her request to help her end her life. Some reviews have called out the similarities between this book and Toews breakout novel A Complicated Kindness, pointing out that the sisters here could be the same two sisters, only thirty odd years later. I agree with t ...more

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Dec 09, 2014 Em H. rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-2015-contemporary-fiction

Somewhere between a 3.5 and a 4. I thought the exploration of grief within the novel was handled well, and I loved the relationship between Elf and Yoli. And I enjoyed the black humor--some of it just wasn't my cup of tea. Great novel, definitely worth reading. ...more

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Dec 29, 2014 Julie Aquilina rated it really liked it

A beautiful book. Rich characters. And a compassionate take on suicide and mental illness through Elf and Yoli's story that I've never quite experienced before. ...more

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