Swing Low: A Life

By Miriam Toews

Book Overview

"Audacious, original and profoundly moving . . . . Healing is a likely outcome of a book imbued with the righteous anger, compassion and humanity of Swing Low." --Globe and Mail (Canada)

Reverberating with emotional power, authenticity, and insight, Swing Low is Miriam Toews's daring and deeply affecting memoir of her father's struggle with manic depression in a small Mennonite community in rural 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062070169
• ISBN13: 9780062070166
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"