{"product_id":"a-truce-that-is-not-peace","title":"A Truce That Is Not Peace","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Autobiography \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51947797905639,"sku":"9781639734740","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_b9bb6981-638d-478d-8257-2af5af55ea2a.jpg?v=1775502118","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/a-truce-that-is-not-peace","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}