#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Winner of the Canadian Authors Association Fiction Prize
Winner of the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
Finalist for the Folio Prize and the Giller Prize
Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Boston Globe, CBC, The Washington Post, The Globe and Mail and more

"Toews’s brave novel All My Puny Sorrows is a high-wire act. What do you do when your beloved and brilliant sister wants you to help her leave this world because she finds her existence too painful? How do you make that into a believable, excruciating but sometimes wildly funny work of fiction? This book would be helpful to those left behind by a loved one’s deliberate departure, too." —Margaret Atwood

"[This is a] poignant, powerful and ultimately uplifting book."
—Ottawa Citizen

"Devastatingly heartbreaking—and hilarious."
—Toronto Star

"Brilliant. . . . Her most accomplished novel yet. . . . In this devastating novel—as in life itself—tenderness and tragedy are, like siblings, forever bound."
—The Globe and Mail

"Poignant, heartbreaking, yet suffused with wit. . . . A stellar achievement. . . . A superb offering from a writer of rare originality and undisputed talent."
—London Free Press

"Rich with a tenderness born of acceptance. To write powerful fiction out of personal events of such magnitude is hard, surely almost unbearably so, but the result is a novel that reaches beyond the limits of itself."
—Financial Times

"Brave and perceptive."
—National Post

“I can think of no precedent for the darkly fizzing tragicomic jeu d’esprit that is Miriam Toews’s sixth novel. Its compulsive readability is all the more remarkable since the story issues from such a dark place in the author’s heart. . . . As I read, I laughed aloud even as tears rose in my eyes.”
—The Guardian (UK)

"Toews manages to marry humour and grief so expertly that the most unbearable sadness is tempered by laughter and can therefore be borne. . . . Toews, a dazzling literary alchemist who manages to summon all the joyous and heartbreaking humanity of her characters, has produced a work of astonishing depth. Reading it is an unforgettable experience."
—Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize jury citation

“Irresistible. . . . Realistic and funny, and somehow, almost magically, Toews gets away with having her characters discuss things like books and art and the meaning of life without seeming pretentious or precious; they’re simply smart, decent and confused. . . . Its intelligence, its honesty and, above all, its compassion provide a kind of existential balm—a comfort not unlike the sort you might find by opening a bottle of wine and having a long conversation with (yes, really) a true friend.”
—Curtis Sittenfeld, The New York Times

"[A] tender and bittersweet novel. . . . The novel is a triumph in its depiction of the love the sisters share."
—Publishers Weekly

“Bold, brash and big-hearted. . . . Toews writes from the point of view of Yoli, whose interior monologue reads like a cross between David Foster Wallace and Robin Williams if both were, in fact, a forty-something Mennonite woman with authority issues. She’s a smart aleck with heart, a philosopher with a comic’s timing.”
—Dallas Morning News