{"product_id":"a-truce-that-is-not-peace-signed-indie-bookstore-edition","title":"A Truce That Is Not Peace (Signed Indie Bookstore Edition)","description":"\u003cdiv\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\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"Revelatory.\" —\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review •\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Essential reading. A companion for turbulent times.\" —Laura van den Berg •\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Nothing short of a masterpiece.” —\u003ci\u003eThe San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Must-Read Book of the Summer by\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eTown \u0026amp; Country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarking the first time Toews has written her own life in nonfiction,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Truce That Is Not Peace\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eexplores 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\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50721174421784,"sku":"9781639738854","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/2852\/6872\/files\/9781639738854_14484.jpg?v=1759589672","url":"https:\/\/www.clearysbookstore.com\/products\/a-truce-that-is-not-peace-signed-indie-bookstore-edition","provider":"Cleary's Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}