Miriam Toews on Confronting Silence

This book came out of trying to attempt to understand the role of silence, the silence of my father and sister. Silence and writing, and how they’re the same. How I could meet my sister? Where could we meet in the writing, or in silence— or in my mind?

Miriam Toews is the author of the internationally acclaimed and bestselling novels Fight Night, Women Talking, All My Puny Sorrows, Irma Voth, The Flying Troutmans, A Complicated Kindness, A Boy of Good Breeding, and Summer of My Amazing Luck, and one prior work of non-fiction, Swing Low: A Life. She is the winner of numerous awards, including the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Libris Award for Fiction, the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the Writers’ Trust Engel Findley Award. Several of her novels have been made into feature films, including All My Puny Sorrows and the Oscar-nominated Women Talking. Miriam Toews lives in Toronto.