Books by Miriam Toews
“I was deeply engaged in what this writer was doing on the page—how she took fragments and put them together. Because it didn’t feel like a fragmentary reading experience, it felt very cohesive. It came back to the question again and again: Why do I write? Why does anybody write? Why should one right?” Read more...
The Best Memoirs: The 2026 NBCC Autobiography Shortlist
Grace Talusan, Literary Scholar
Interviews where books by Miriam Toews were recommended
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Mother Mary Comes to Me
by Arundhati Roy -
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Memorial Days: A Memoir
by Geraldine Brooks -
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Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
by Beth Macy -
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Shattered: A Memoir – Honest Hospital Dispatches on Physical Loss, Parenthood, and Finding Hope, Gratitude, and Love
by Hanif Kureishi -
5
A Truce That Is Not Peace
by Miriam Toews
The Best Memoirs: The 2026 NBCC Autobiography Shortlist, recommended by Grace Talusan
The Best Memoirs: The 2026 NBCC Autobiography Shortlist, recommended by Grace Talusan
We asked Grace Talusan—the critic, memoirist, and chair of the National Book Critics Circle autobiography committee—to talk us through their shortlist of the best new memoirs: from the “novelistic” winning book by Arundhati Roy to journalist Beth Macy’s hard-hitting examination of her struggling Ohio hometown.
