English 2060E Lecture Notes - Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness, Holden Caulfield
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Toews was born and raised in steinbach, manitoba, which provided the model for the pioneer village simulacrum of east village in a. Mennonite, but as she states in interviews, her parents were far more permissive than the majority of those depicted in her fiction. The fictional autobiography is called swing low (2000), but toews" novel explores grief and loss as much as swing low explores what her father might have communicated if he had been able to speak of his psychological difficulties. Certainly both works examine the impact of culture on expression. Toews also wrote two humorous novels, summer of my amazing. Luck (1996), which was a stephen leacock award winner, and a boy of. She has since published the flying troutmans (2008) to critical acclaim. There are autobiographical parallels with her heroine beyond their shared grief and anger at their communities, real and fictional. Toews too left her hometown after high school.
