All my puny sorrows
Elfrieda, a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to die. Yolandi, divorced, broke, sleeping with the wrong men as she tries to find true love: she desperately wants to keep her older sister alive. But Elf's latest suicide attempt is a shock: she is three weeks away from the opening of her highly anticipated international tour. Can she be nursed back to "health" in time? Does it matter? As the situation becomes ever more complicated, Yoli faces the most terrifying decision of her life.
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- ISBN: 9781490658940
- Physical Description 10 audio discs (12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition Unabridged.
- Publisher Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, [2014]
- Copyright ℗2014
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General Note: | Shortlisted for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize Title from container. Compact disc. In container (17 cm.). "With tracks every 3 minutes for easy book marking"--Container. GMD: compact disc. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Narrated by Erin Moon. |
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All My Puny Sorrows
Elf and Yoli are sisters. While on the surface Elfrieda's life is enviable (she's a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, and happily married) and Yolandi's a mess (she's divorced and broke, with two teenagers growing up too quickly), they are fiercely close - raised in a Mennonite household and sharing the hardship of Elf's desire to end her life. After Elf's latest attempt, Yoli must quickly determine how to keep her family from falling apart, how to keep her own heart from breaking, and what it means to love someone who wants to die. All My Puny Sorrows is the latest novel from Miriam Toews, one of Canada's most beloved authors - not only because her work is rich with deep human feeling and compassion but because her observations are knife-sharp and her books wickedly funny. And this is Toews at her finest: a story that is as much a comedy as it is a tragedy, a goodbye grin from the friend who taught you how to live.