Her 2004 novel "A Complicated Kindness" was her breakthrough work, spending over a year on the Canadian bestseller lists and winning the Governor General's Award for English Fiction. Her non-fiction book "Swing Low: A Life" was a memoir of her father, a victim of lifelong depression. Toews studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of King's College in Halifax, and has also worked as a freelance newspaper and radio journalist. She grew up in Steinbach, Manitoba and has lived in Montreal and London, before settling in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The novel, about a teenage girl who longs to escape her small Russian Mennonite town and hang out with Lou Reed in the slums of New York C Miriam Toews is a Canadian writer of Mennonite descent. Miriam Toews is a Canadian writer of Mennonite descent.
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