Swing Low: A Life |
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| Authors: | Toews, Miriam |
| Publisher: | Harper Perennial |
| BISAC/Subject: | BIO026000, PSY049000, FAM014000 |
| ISBN: | 9780062070173, Related ISBNs: 0062070177, 9780062070166, 9780062070173 |
| Classification: | Non-Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 240, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
Reverberating with emotional power, authenticity, and insight, Swing Low is Miriam Toews's daring and deeply affecting memoir ofher father’s struggle with manic depression in a small Mennonite community inrural Canada. Personal and touching, a stirring counterpart to her novel IrmaVoth and reminiscent of works by Susan Cheever, Gail Caldwell, Mary Karr, and Alexandra Styron, Swing Low is an elegiac ode to a difficult life by an author drawing from the deepest well of insight, craft, and emotion.
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