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SUMMARY:An Evening with Miriam Toews
LOCATION:Central\n<p><strong>Port Nelson United Church</strong></p>\n<p>31
 32 South Dr\, Burlington\, ON L7N 1H7</p>\n<p><a href="https://maps.app.go
 o.gl/VpvYQpDHn1Fuhmbb9">Google Map Link</a></p>
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 ted Church</strong></p>\n<p>3132 South Dr\, Burlington\, ON L7N 1H7</p>\n<
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DESCRIPTION:Author of A Truce That Is Not Peace\n.\nhttps://bpl.libnet.inf
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><strong>Please note:</strong> The&nbsp\;lo
 cation for this rescheduled event is Port Nelson United Church\, 3132 Sout
 h Drive\, Burlington.</p>\n<p>In this breathtaking memoir of stunning emot
 ional force and electrifying honesty\, one of Canada's most iconic writers
  tells her own story for the first time in an attempt to answer the questi
 on\, "Why do you write?"</p>\n<p>With each attempt at an answer\, Toews re
 alizes she has been keeping up an internal correspondence with her beloved
  sibling\, attempting to fill a silence she can barely comprehend. As Toew
 s turns to face that silence\, we come to see that the question &ldquo\;wh
 y I write&rdquo\; is as impossible to answer as deciding whether to live l
 ife as&nbsp\;a comedy or a tragedy.&nbsp\;A masterwork of non-fiction\,&nb
 sp\;<em>A Truce That Is Not Peace</em>&nbsp\;explores the uneasy pact ever
 y creative person makes with memory. Wildly original yet intimately\, powe
 rfully precise\; momentous\, hilarious\, wrenching\, and joyful&mdash\;thi
 s is Miriam Toews at her dazzling best\, remaking her personal world and i
 nventing a brilliant literary form to hold it.</p>\n<p><em>A Truce That Is
  Not Peace</em> is a finalist for the 2025 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Pr
 ize for nonfiction\, the largest prize for nonfiction in Canada. The winne
 r announcement is on November 13.</p>\n<p>A Different Drummer Books will b
 e on site with books for sale and signing after the talk.</p>\n<p>Presente
 d in partnership with Knopf Canada and A Different Drummer Books</p>\n<h5>
 About the Author</h5>\n<p>Miriam Toews is the author of the multiple bests
 elling titles including&nbsp\;<em>Women Talking</em>\,&nbsp\;<em>All My Pu
 ny Sorrows</em>\,&nbsp\;<em>A Complicated Kindness</em>\, and one prior wo
 rk of non-fiction\,&nbsp\;<em>Swing Low: A Life</em>. She is the winner of
  numerous awards\, including the Governor General&rsquo\;s Literary Award 
 for Fiction\, the Libris Award for Fiction\, the Atwood Gibson Writers&rsq
 uo\; Trust Fiction Prize\, and the Writers&rsquo\; Trust Engel Findley Awa
 rd. Several of her novels have been made into feature films\, including<em
 >&nbsp\;All My Puny Sorrows</em>&nbsp\;and the Oscar-nominated&nbsp\;<em>W
 omen Talking</em>.</p>\n<p>Explore <a href="https://burlington.bibliocommo
 ns.com/v2/search?query=Toews%2C%20Miriam&amp\;searchType=author">Miriam To
 ews</a> in our collection</p>\n<h5>Accessibility</h5>\n<p>If you need an <
 a href="https://www.bpl.on.ca/services/accessibility/support#attend">acces
 sibility accommodation</a> during this program\, please register early so 
 we can confirm arrangements a few days before your visit.</p>\nhttps://bpl
 .libnet.info/event/15217993
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