Miriam Toews

Jordan sits down to talk with Miriam Toews about her new book, A Truce That Is Not Peace , her first nonfiction book, and the events that inspired it: the death by suicide of her father and then, later, her sister. They talk about the long periods of silence her father and sister both went through when they were alive, and how Toews' own persistent need to "arrange sentences" pushes back against their silences. Also discussed: grandkids, the whipsaw between horror and hilarity in her work, and the Mennonite community in which she was raised. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Miriam Toews is an episode from Thresholds by Jordan Kisner.

This episode is 48:51 long.

This episode was published on Sep 17, 2025.

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