All My Puny Sorrows
By: Miriam Toews
Publisher: McSweeney's
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9781940450278
Subjects: Grief; Divorced women; Women pianists; Sisters; Suicidal behavior; Fiction
Description: 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.