{"product_id":"swing-low-a-life-paperback","title":"Swing Low: A Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMiriam Toews\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInternationally bestselling author Miriam Toews recounts her father's life as he might have told it, right up to his final day.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne 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 school teacher, Mel was a pillar of his close-knit community. Yet after a lifetime of struggling with bipolar disorder, he could no longer face the ruptures in his world. \u003ci\u003eSwing Low\u003c\/i\u003e is an elegiac ode to a life by an author drawing from the deepest wells of insight and emotion.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMiriam Toews\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the bestselling novels \u003ci\u003eWomen Talking\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFight Night\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAll My Puny Sorrows\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSummer of My Amazing Luck\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Boy of Good Breeding\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Complicated Kindness\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Flying Troutmans\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIrma Voth\u003c\/i\u003e, and the nonfiction work\u003ci\u003e A Truce That Is Not Peace\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and the Writers' Trust Engel\/Findley Award. She lives in Toronto.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.66 x 8.17 x 5.55 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 26, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44419356065894,"sku":"9781639734771","price":26.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/G6ADFY0uiy9781639734771.webp?v=1770105089","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/swing-low-a-life-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}