Inspired by the scapegoating of beating and rapes of Mennonite women on to 'punishing spirits' across the early 2000s, this novel imagines the Mennonite women gathering in secret to discuss how best to fight to defend themselves,...

Inspired by the scapegoating of beatings and rapes of Mennonite women on to 'punishing spirits' across the early 2000s, this novel imagines the Mennonite women gathering in secret to discuss how best to fight to defend themselves,...

All My Puny Sorrows von Toews, Miriam

National BestsellerWinner of the Brooklyn Public LIbrary Literary Prize for FictionShortlisted for the Governor General's Award for FictionShortlisted for the Reading Women Award"This amazing, sad, shocking, but touching novel, based on...

Mit 1500 Einwohnern trägt Algren einen Ehrentitel: kleinste Kleinstadt Kanadas. Ein Einwohner mehr, und es wäre nur noch irgendeine Kleinstadt, einer weniger und es wäre ein Dorf. Als der Premierminister ankündigt, dem Ort als kleinster...

Instead she's trapped in East Village, Manitoba: a town with no train station, no bar, and where job prospects consist of slaughtering chickens at the Happy Family Farms abattoir. Since her mother and sister have left home, Nomi lives...

Winner of the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award "Tonic for the spirit: a charming, deeply moving, unerringly human story, perfectly shaped and beautifully told." -The Globe and Mail Life in Winnipeg didn't go as planned for Knute...

At home, classes include Poached Egg and How to Dig a Winter Grave, and her Grandma is a lively - if exasperating - teacher. Swiv isn't the only member of her family who has been fighting. von Toews, Miriam

The basis of the Oscar-winning film from writer/director Sarah Polley, starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, with Ben Whishaw and Frances McDormand.INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER"This amazing, sad, shocking, but touching novel,...

Fight Night von Toews, Miriam

A profound, unsettling novel from the award-winning author of All My Puny Sorrows, soon to be a major film starring Frances McDormand, Rooney Mara and Ben Whishaw. von Toews, Miriam

Still dealing with her own mother's sudden death, and new to the ever-multiplying complications of life on welfare, Lucy strikes up a friendship with her neighbour, Lish. von Toews, Miriam