![]() ![]() She has won the Governor General's Award for Fiction (A Complicated Kindness) and the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award for her body of work. Towes’ novels include A Complicated Kindness, All My Puny Sorrows, Irma Voth, Fight Night and Women Talking. And then as she published more and I started looking at her work in more detail, I thought, ‘What an amazing writer and nobody’s written a full-length book on her.’ In fact, there wasn’t that much written on her in general, so I thought, ‘There’s somebody who needs a full-length treatment.’” Her works often feature people who deal with mental illness, and in her own life Toews lost a father and a sister to suicide. “I started reading her work about 20 years ago when I became interested in how mental illness is depicted in literature, and Canadian literature especially,” Reed explains. In a new book, Lives Lived, Lives Imagined: Landscapes of Resilience in the Works of Miriam Toews (University of Manitoba Press, 2022), Mount Royal University English professor Sabrina Reed, PhD, examines Toews' novels through the lens of trauma and resilience. That said, surprisingly little has been written about the Manitoba author’s work. Poignant, sad, but at times laugh-out-loud funny: novels by Miriam Toews are incisive classics of Canadian literature. Mount Royal University English professor Sabrina Reed, PhD. Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. ![]() ![]() Institute for Environmental Sustainability. ![]()
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