A Truce That Is Not Peace

THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2025 `The best memoir you will read all year' NICK HORNBY `A triumphant meditation on loss, literature and the unspoken' GUARDIAN `Curious and idiosyncratic and enjoyable' ZADIE SMITH `Darkly moving and heart-wrenchingly funny' 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. `Why do you write?' the organiser of a literary event in Mexico City asks Miriam Toews. Each attempted answer from Toews - all of them unsatisfactory to the organiser - surfaces new layers of grief, guilt and futility connected to her sister's 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. `Toews knows exactly how to extract hilarity from horrifying events' THE TIMES `Memoir perfection . I adored it' CARIAD LLOYD, author of You Are Not Alone `I can't get enough of Miriam's Toews' writing' NINA STIBBE, author of Went to London, Took the Dog `Beautiful, hilarious, devastating' PAULA HAWKINS, author of The Blue Hour `Brilliant . it broke my heart in the best of ways' SHARLENE TEO, author of Ponti `A grief memoir in the vein of Joan Didion's Blue Nights' NEW YORK TIMES A Truce That Is Not Peace was a #1 bestseller in Canada in w/c 06/09/2025