Miriam Toews
Miriam Toews (pronounced tâves) was born in 1964 in the small Mennonite town of Steinbach, Manitoba. She left Steinbach at eighteen, living in Montreal and London and touring Europe before coming back to Manitoba, where she earned a B.A. in film studies at the University of Manitoba. Later she packed up with her children and partner and moved to Halifax to attend the University of King’s College, where she received a bachelor’s degree in journalism. Upon returning to Winnipeg with her family in 1991, she freelanced at the CBC, making radio documentaries. When her youngest daughter started nursery school, Toews decided...
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The Flying Troutmans
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39750-8 (0-307-39750-5)
June 2, 2009 | $22.00
"Min was stranded in her bed, hooked on the blue torpedoes and convinced that a million silver cars were closing in on her (I didn’t know what Thebes meant either), Logan was in trouble at school, something about the disturbing stories he was writing, Thebes was pretending to be Min on...
Written by Miriam Toews
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39750-8 (0-307-39750-5)
June 2, 2009 | $22.00
"Min was stranded in her bed, hooked on the blue torpedoes and convinced that a million silver cars were closing in on her (I didn’t know what Thebes meant either), Logan was in trouble at school, something about the disturbing stories he was writing, Thebes was pretending to be Min on...
A Complicated Kindness
eBook | 256 pages | Seal Books | Fiction
978-0-307-37115-7 (0-307-37115-8)
February 24, 2009 | $11.99
Sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel longs to hang out with Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull in New York City’s East Village. Instead she’s trapped in East Village, Manitoba, a small town whose population is Mennonite: “the most embarrassing sub-sect of people to belong to if you’re a teenager.” East Village is a town...
Written by Miriam Toews
eBook | 256 pages | Seal Books | Fiction
978-0-307-37115-7 (0-307-37115-8)
February 24, 2009 | $11.99
Sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel longs to hang out with Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull in New York City’s East Village. Instead she’s trapped in East Village, Manitoba, a small town whose population is Mennonite: “the most embarrassing sub-sect of people to belong to if you’re a teenager.” East Village is a town...
The Flying Troutmans
eBook | 288 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37169-0 (0-307-37169-7)
February 24, 2009 | $22.00
"Min was stranded in her bed, hooked on the blue torpedoes and convinced that a million silver cars were closing in on her (I didn’t know what Thebes meant either), Logan was in trouble at school, something about the disturbing stories he was writing, Thebes was pretending to be Min on...
Written by Miriam Toews
eBook | 288 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37169-0 (0-307-37169-7)
February 24, 2009 | $22.00
"Min was stranded in her bed, hooked on the blue torpedoes and convinced that a million silver cars were closing in on her (I didn’t know what Thebes meant either), Logan was in trouble at school, something about the disturbing stories he was writing, Thebes was pretending to be Min on...
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The Flying Troutmans
Hardcover | 288 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39749-2 (0-307-39749-1)
September 2, 2008 | $32.00
"Min was stranded in her bed, hooked on the blue torpedoes and convinced that a million silver cars were closing in on her (I didn’t know what Thebes meant either), Logan was in trouble at school, something about the disturbing stories he was writing, Thebes was pretending to be Min on...
Written by Miriam Toews
Hardcover | 288 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39749-2 (0-307-39749-1)
September 2, 2008 | $32.00
"Min was stranded in her bed, hooked on the blue torpedoes and convinced that a million silver cars were closing in on her (I didn’t know what Thebes meant either), Logan was in trouble at school, something about the disturbing stories he was writing, Thebes was pretending to be Min on...
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eBook and a
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A Complicated Kindness
Paperback | 352 pages | Seal Books | Fiction
978-1-4000-2576-3 (1-4000-2576-1)
August 26, 2008 | $11.99
Sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel longs to hang out with Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull in New York City’s East Village. Instead she’s trapped in East Village, Manitoba, a small town whose population is Mennonite: “the most embarrassing sub-sect of people to belong to if you’re a teenager.” East Village is a town...
Written by Miriam Toews
Paperback | 352 pages | Seal Books | Fiction
978-1-4000-2576-3 (1-4000-2576-1)
August 26, 2008 | $11.99
Sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel longs to hang out with Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull in New York City’s East Village. Instead she’s trapped in East Village, Manitoba, a small town whose population is Mennonite: “the most embarrassing sub-sect of people to belong to if you’re a teenager.” East Village is a town...
A Complicated Kindness
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97856-8 (0-676-97856-8)
May 1, 2007 | $17.95
Sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel longs to hang out with Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull in New York City’s East Village. Instead she’s trapped in East Village, Manitoba, a small town whose population is Mennonite: “the most embarrassing sub-sect of people to belong to if you’re a teenager.” East Village is a town...
Written by Miriam Toews
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97856-8 (0-676-97856-8)
May 1, 2007 | $17.95
Sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel longs to hang out with Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull in New York City’s East Village. Instead she’s trapped in East Village, Manitoba, a small town whose population is Mennonite: “the most embarrassing sub-sect of people to belong to if you’re a teenager.” East Village is a town...
Summer of My Amazing Luck
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97847-6 (0-676-97847-9)
July 25, 2006 | $19.95
A Novel by the Governor General’s Literary Award—winning author of A Complicated Kindness
Lucy Van Alstyne always thought she’d grow up to become a forest ranger. Instead, at the age of eighteen, she’s found herself with quite a different job title: Single Mother on the Dole. As for the father of her...
Written by Miriam Toews
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97847-6 (0-676-97847-9)
July 25, 2006 | $19.95
A Novel by the Governor General’s Literary Award—winning author of A Complicated Kindness
Lucy Van Alstyne always thought she’d grow up to become a forest ranger. Instead, at the age of eighteen, she’s found herself with quite a different job title: Single Mother on the Dole. As for the father of her...
A Complicated Kindness
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97613-7 (0-676-97613-1)
June 28, 2005 | $22.00
Sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel longs to hang out with Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull in New York City’s East Village. Instead she’s trapped in East Village, Manitoba, a small town whose population is Mennonite: “the most embarrassing sub-sect of people to belong to if you’re a teenager.” East Village is a town...
Written by Miriam Toews
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97613-7 (0-676-97613-1)
June 28, 2005 | $22.00
Sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel longs to hang out with Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull in New York City’s East Village. Instead she’s trapped in East Village, Manitoba, a small town whose population is Mennonite: “the most embarrassing sub-sect of people to belong to if you’re a teenager.” East Village is a town...
A Boy of Good Breeding
Trade Paperback | 252 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97719-6 (0-676-97719-7)
April 26, 2005 | $19.95
From the acclaimed Giller Prize Finalist and Governor General’s Award Winner: a delightfully funny and charming second novel about Canada’s smallest town.
Life in Winnipeg didn’t go as planned for Knute and her daughter. But living back in Algren with her parents and working for the longtime mayor, Hosea Funk, has its...
Written by Miriam Toews
Trade Paperback | 252 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97719-6 (0-676-97719-7)
April 26, 2005 | $19.95
From the acclaimed Giller Prize Finalist and Governor General’s Award Winner: a delightfully funny and charming second novel about Canada’s smallest town.
Life in Winnipeg didn’t go as planned for Knute and her daughter. But living back in Algren with her parents and working for the longtime mayor, Hosea Funk, has its...
Swing Low
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Literary; Biography & Autobiography
978-0-676-97718-9 (0-676-97718-9)
March 1, 2005 | $19.95
After her father took his own life in 1998, Miriam Toews decided to face her confusion and pain straight on. In writing her father’s memoir, she was motivated by two primary goals: For her own sake, she needed to understand, or at least accept, her father’s final decision. For her father’s...
Written by Miriam Toews
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Literary; Biography & Autobiography
978-0-676-97718-9 (0-676-97718-9)
March 1, 2005 | $19.95
After her father took his own life in 1998, Miriam Toews decided to face her confusion and pain straight on. In writing her father’s memoir, she was motivated by two primary goals: For her own sake, she needed to understand, or at least accept, her father’s final decision. For her father’s...
