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Also by Miriam Toews:

Fight Night, October 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
Swing Low, September 2011
Paperback / e-Book
Irma Voth, September 2011
Hardcover / e-Book
The Flying Troutmans, October 2009
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Summer Of My Amazing Luck: A Novel, July 2006
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A Boy Of Good Breeding, April 2006
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A Complicated Kindness, August 2005
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SWING LOW
By: Miriam Toews

HarperCollins
September 2011
On Sale: September 6, 2011
240 pages
ISBN: 0062070169
EAN: 9780062070166
Kindle: B004U70D60
Paperback / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Biography

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.