{"product_id":"a-truce-that-is-not-peace","title":"A Truce That Is Not Peace","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eA Truce That Is Not Peace\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMiriam Toews\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781639734740\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eBloomsbury Publishing\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2025\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Essential reading. A companion for turbulent times.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Laura van den Berg\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eInternationally bestselling author Miriam Toews' memoir of the will to write-a work of disobedient memory, humor, and exquisite craft set against a content-hungry, prose-stuffed society.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Why do you write?\" the organizer of a literary event in Mexico City asks Miriam Toews. Each attempted answer from Toews-all of them unsatisfactory to the organizer-surfaces new layers of grief, guilt, and futility connected to her sister's suicide. She has been keeping up, she realizes, a decades-old internal correspondence, filling a silence she barely understands. And we, her readers, come to see that the question is as impossible to answer as deciding whether to live life as a comedy or a tragedy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarking the first time Toews has written her own life in nonfiction, \u003ci\u003eA Truce That Is Not Peace\u003c\/i\u003e explores the uneasy pact a writer makes with memory. Wildly inventive yet masterfully controlled; slyly casual yet momentous; wrenching and joyful; hilarious and humane-this is Miriam Toews at her dazzling best, remaking her world and inventing an astonishing new literary form to contain it.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"A Truce That Is Not Peace | Miriam Toews | Hardcover | 9781639734740 | New | Memoir 1692392","offer_id":50813424599298,"sku":"1692392","price":38.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/81zDCV-fs4L.jpg?v=1792487561","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/a-truce-that-is-not-peace","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}