A Truce that is not Peace

THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2025 âThe best memoir you will read all yearâ NICK HORNBY âA triumphant meditation on loss, literature and the unspokenâ GUARDIAN âCurious and idiosyncratic and enjoyableâ ZADIE SMITH âDarkly moving and heart-wrenchingly funnyâ MARIE CLAIRE The internationally bestselling author of Women Talking and All My Puny Sorrows, Miriam Toews, returns with a singular memoir celebrating disobedient memory, wit, writing and life. âWhy do you write?â the organiser of a literary event in Mexico City asks Miriam Toews. Each attempted answer from Toews â" all of them unsatisfactory to the organiser â" surfaces new layers of grief, guilt and futility connected to her sisterâs suicide. She has been keeping up, she realises, 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. A book of the year in the Guardian, New Yorker, TIME, Washington Post, New Statesman, NPR, Irish Times and LitHub. âToews knows exactly how to extract hilarity from horrifying eventsâ THE TIMES âMemoir perfection ⦠I adored itâ CARIAD LLOYD, author of You Are Not Alone âI canât get enough of Miriamâs Toewsâ writingâ NINA STIBBE, author of Went to London, Took the Dog âBeautiful, hilarious, devastatingâ PAULA HAWKINS, author of The Blue Hour âBrilliant ⦠it broke my heart in the best of waysâ SHARLENE TEO, author of Ponti âA grief memoir in the vein of Joan Didionâs Blue Nightsâ NEW YORK TIMES A Truce That Is Not Peace was a #1 bestseller in Canada in w/c 06/09/2025