![]() And fair enough: it is a book about suicide, and, as must be noted, a book drawn from suicides in Toews's own life – those of her father and her sister. ![]() Elfrieda wants to die so desperately that, at one point in the novel, she cuts her wrists and drinks bleach.ĪMPS, as Elfrieda abbreviates the Coleridge line that lends the novel its title, has been called a book about suicide. Yolandi lives a happy enough life, though she's down on herself for sleeping around, for not being as career-driven as she might be. Yolandi has two children Elfrieda has none. Yolandi lives in Toronto Elfrieda lives in Winnipeg. The other is Elfrieda, or Elf, a world-class concert pianist known for her Rachmaninoff, in much demand in the capitals of Europe. One is our narrator, Yolandi, a moderately successful author of rodeo-themed young adult novels. In Miriam Toews's brilliant and desperately sad new novel, All My Puny Sorrows, we meet two sisters. ![]()
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