A Truce That Is Not Peace Bookmarks her carefully constructed walls begin

her carefully constructed walls begin to crumble—especially around Cliff

or any achievement worth applauding

“Polished to perfection

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and the consequences have chased her all the way to Ardmuir

A Truce That Is Not Peace Bookmarks her carefully constructed walls begin"Essential reading. A companion for turbulent times." Laura van den Berg Internationally 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. 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,