MIRIAM TOEWS is the author of many bestselling novels: Fight Night, Women Talking, All My Puny Sorrows, Summer of My Amazing Luck, A Boy of Good Breeding, A Complicated Kindness, The Flying Troutmans, and Irma Voth, and one work of non-fiction, Swing Low: A Life. She is a winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, the Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year, the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and the Writers' Trust Engel Findley Award. She lives in Toronto.
“Toews’s writing is a unique collision of sadness and humour. . . .
The Flying Troutmans is a dark story but it is also a never-ending
series of hilarious adventures.”
—Ottawa Citizen
“Engaging, humorous, grim, and redemptive, this is essential
reading.”
—Library Journal
“It’s darkly funny, bursting at the seams with quirky characters
and off-kilter pop culture references that rival Douglas Coupland’s
for their incisive wit.”
—The Vancouver Sun
“Toews may have invented a new genre, the romantic-depressive
comedy, at which she excels.”
—Toronto Star
“Toews has a terrific ability to capture the mix of irony and
innocence in a smart child’s mind. . . . She balances heartbreak
with laugh-out-loud wit.”
— Edmonton Journal
“Toews writes . . . in a high-energy original voice filled with
love, fear, humour and originality. . . . Miriam Toews is an
extraordinarily gifted writer, one who writes with unsentimental
compassion for her people and an honest understanding of their
past, the tectonic shifts of their present and variables of their
future.”
—The Globe and Mail
"Toews's writing is a unique collision of sadness and humour. . . .
The Flying Troutmans is a dark story but it is also a
never-ending series of hilarious adventures."
-Ottawa Citizen
"Engaging, humorous, grim, and redemptive, this is
essential reading."
-Library Journal
"It's darkly funny, bursting at the seams with quirky
characters and off-kilter pop culture references that rival Douglas
Coupland's for their incisive wit."
-The Vancouver Sun
"Toews may have invented a new genre, the
romantic-depressive comedy, at which she excels."
-Toronto Star
"Toews has a terrific ability to capture the mix of irony
and innocence in a smart child's mind. . . . She balances
heartbreak with laugh-out-loud wit."
- Edmonton Journal
"Toews writes . . . in a high-energy original voice filled
with love, fear, humour and originality. . . . Miriam Toews is an
extraordinarily gifted writer, one who writes with unsentimental
compassion for her people and an honest understanding of their
past, the tectonic shifts of their present and variables of their
future."
-The Globe and Mail
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