All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
by Christina
Fiction — print. McSweeney’s, 2014. 330 pgs. Library copy. Raised in a Mennonite household haunted by remembers of religious persecution in Russia, Elfrieda and Yolandi are expected to conform to particular expectations for their life and live in a community where people gossip and whisper about the nonconformists. Elfrieda, known as Elf to her family, is a progeny at the piano offering her an opportunity to escape from the insular community and her sister, known as Yoli, an example of […]
Categories: 2014 Reads, Canada, Fiction, Giller Prize, North America • Tags: Miriam Toews
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