{"product_id":"9781639734740","title":"A Truce That Is Not Peace","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Autobiography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORKER\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTHE WASHINGTON POST, THE WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e NPR\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e LIT HUB\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e ELECTRIC LITERATURE\u003c\/i\u003e, AND \u003ci\u003eBOOKPAGE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Revelatory.\" -\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Essential reading. A companion for turbulent times.\" -Laura van den Berg\u003cbr\u003e\"Nothing short of a masterpiece.” -\u003ci\u003eThe San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInternationally 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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, guilt, and futility connected to her sister's suicide. She has been keeping up, she realizes, a decades-old internal correspondence, filling a silence she barely understands. And we, her readers, come to see that the question is as impossible to answer as deciding whether to live life as a comedy or a tragedy. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarking the first time Toews has written her own life in nonfiction, \u003ci\u003eA Truce That Is Not Peace\u003c\/i\u003e explores the uneasy pact a writer makes with memory. Wildly inventive yet masterfully controlled; slyly casual yet momentous; wrenching and joyful; hilarious and humane-this is Miriam Toews at her dazzling best, remaking her world and inventing an astonishing new literary form to contain it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42533738971197,"sku":"9781639734740","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781639734740_p0.jpg?v=1771585570","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9781639734740","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}