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Library CD (In Stock)
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2 Formats: Library CD
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2 Formats: MP3 CD
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Available on 09/22/2026
ISBN: 9798899744709
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Available on 09/22/2026
ISBN: 9798228953499
| Category: | Nonfiction/Biography & Autobiography |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
Internationally bestselling author Miriam Toews recounts her father's life as he might have told it, right up to his final day.One morning, Mel Toews put on his coat and hat, walked out of town, and took his own life. A loving husband and father, a faithful member of the Mennonite church, and an immensely popular school teacher, Mel was a pillar of his close-knit community. Yet after a lifetime of struggling with bipolar disorder, he could no longer face the ruptures in his world. Swing Low is an elegiac ode to a life by an author drawing from the deepest wells of insight and emotion.
Author
Author Bio: Miriam Toews
Miriam Toews is the author of several acclaimed bestselling novels and one work of nonfiction, Swing Low: A Life. She is winner of the Governor General’s Award for
Fiction, the Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the Writers’ Trust Engel/Findley Award.
Details
Details
| Available Formats : | Library CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Biography & Autobiography |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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