num_pages: 240
description: Audacious original and profoundly moving . . . . Healing is a likely outcome of a book imbued with the righteous anger compassion and humanity of Swing Low .  Globe and Mail (Canada) Reverberating with emotional power authenticity and insight  Swing Low is Miriam Toews's daring and deeply affecting memoir of her fathers struggle with manic depression in a small Mennonite community in rural Canada. Personal and touching a stirring counterpart to her novel IrmaVoth and reminiscent of works by Susan Cheever Gail Caldwell Mary Karr and Alexandra Styron Swing Low is an elegiac ode to a difficult life by an author drawing from the deepest well of insightcraft and emotion.
language: English
title: Swing Low: A Life
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers