"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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 09/06/2011
ISBN: 9780062070166
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.70d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 05/23/2011
New York Times Book Review 09/25/2011 pg. 24
Shelf Awareness 09/09/2011