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Apr 11, 2014 · Miriam Toews was alone in her Toronto home when she received a phone call informing her that her older sister, Marjorie, was dead. It was a Saturday — June 5, 2010, the day before Marj’s...
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May 2, 2015 · Her older sister, Marjorie, killed herself in 2010, having lived with severe depression for most of her life. Like their father, who had taken his own life almost exactly 12 years before, she...
Toews' older sister and only sibling, Marjorie, died by suicide in 2010, almost 12 years to the day after their father. Toews' partner is Erik Rutherford, the screenwriter for the 2021 film Charlotte. Her daughter Georgia Toews and son Owen Toews are both writers.
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- Owen Toews, Georgia Toews
- Novelist
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Mar 18, 2019 · Her father and her sister both died too young, and she sees a certain Mennonite tendency toward sorrow and earthly guilt as bearing some responsibility for their deaths. On the other hand, she...
- Alexandra Schwartz
May 22, 2023 · Because 12 years after her father’s suicide, Toews’ older sister Marjorie ended her life in precisely the same way. “By then my kids were adults,” she says. “But when my grandchildren were...
Mar 28, 2019 · March 28, 2019. TORONTO — Miriam Toews woke up the other night, her heart racing. She wasn’t having another dream about her sister’s violent death, or her father’s, or the rapes suffered by...
May 7, 2014 · Miriam Toews, author of All My Puny Sorrows, discusses fictionalizing her family history, how shame begets art, and creating a community with her writing. In 2010, Marjorie Toews, the sister of Canadian novelist Miriam Toews, ended her life. Her death came 12 years after the suicide of their father, Melvin.
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