Miriam Toews

“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,...

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...

Jorge said he wasn't coming back until I learned how to be a better wife... The life of nineteen-year-old Irma Voth, recently married and more recently deserted, is turned on its head when a film...