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A witty and poignant memoir of an extraordinary man recounts the story of Mel Toews, a devoted husband and father, a popular schoolteacher, and faithful member of the Mennonite church who could no longer deal with the pain and darkness of manic depression. 10,000 first printing.

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"Audacious, original and profoundly moving ... A deeply affecting work ....This is a document for the living, and its virtues are more than literary; healing is a likely outcome of a book imbued with the righteous anger, compassion and humanity of Swing Low."
--"The Globe and Mail
" A fine, fluent book teeming with anecdote and incident, echoes and images ....Swing Low is a detailed, textured portrait, not just of human life, but of a community, of small-town, Mennonite Manitoba."
--"Quill &Quire
"Toews' novelistic skills (the award-winning comic novels Summer of My Amazing Luck and A Boy of Good Breeding) are richly apparent in her evocative characterizations and in the deft drama of the narrative ....A profoundly affecting book."
--"Toronto Star

."..Toews offers a touching memoir."--Publishers Weekly

"The magic of Swing Low is that Toews makes a life that looked ordinary, even grindingly so, seem exalted."--Maria Russo, New York Times Book Review

Toews offers a touching memoir. --Publishers Weekly"

The magic of Swing Low is that Toews makes a life that looked ordinary, even grindingly so, seem exalted. --Maria Russo, New York Times Book Review"

..".Toews offers a touching memoir."--Publishers Weekly
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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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  • PublisherArcade Pub
  • Publication date2001
  • ISBN 10 1559705876
  • ISBN 13 9781559705875
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