HarperCollins
September 2011
On Sale: September 6, 2011
240 pages ISBN: 0062070169 EAN: 9780062070166 Kindle: B004U70D60 Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
One morning, Mel Toews put on his coat and hat, walked out
of town, and took his own life. A loving husband and father,
a faithful member of the Mennonite church, and an immensely
popular schoolteacher, Mel was a pillar of his close-knit
community. Yet after a lifetime of struggling with bipolar
disorder, he could no longer face the darkness that clouded
his world. In this moving meditation on illness, family,
faith, and love, Mel’s daughter, critically acclaimed
novelist and reporter Miriam Toews, recounts her father’s
life as he would have told it, in his own voice, right up to
the day of his final walk. Swing Low is a bold, gracefully
written, and compassionate recounting of one man’s
heartbreaking battle with depression.
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