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Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews is a novelist and the author of the memoir “ A Truce That Is Not Peace .”

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“Something Has Come to Light”
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Fiction by Miriam Toews, the author of “Women Talking” and “Fight Night”: He asked me if I wanted to ride with him, and I said no. He repeated that back to me. He said, No? Or . . . yes?