‘My sister, my God. It’s a visceral pain that never goes away’: Miriam Toews on a memoir of suicide and silence
- Posted on August 27, 2025
- By The Guardian
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‘My sister, my God. It’s a visceral pain that never goes away’: Miriam Toews on a memoir of suicide and silence

Having fled the strictures of her Mennonite upbringing, the Canadian author searches for meaning in her older sister’s death: ‘She taught me how to stay alive’