![]() ![]() ![]() In her review of A Complicated Kindness Magdalene Redekop, who identifies as Mennonite, discloses that she "had that rare and irrational feeling that this was a novel written just for me," which is exactly the same feeling that overcame me, a non-Mennonite, when I read All My Puny Sorrows. All My Puny Sorrows is viewed in this discussion as the final novel of Toews's trilogy of autofiction and is contextualized within a tradition of "sister-texts." The loss of home as experienced in the loss of the sister is felt as "the presence of absence." The essay argues that the consolation provided by reparative nostalgia engages the imagination, dream, and vision in ways that reinforce the inward movement to the heart and new directions of intimacy. ![]() This essay examines sister-loss and home-loss in Miriam Toews's All My Puny Sorrows, arguing that the novel's movement inward to the heart breaks away from established patterns of tension between past and present and between perceived margins and centers in Canadian Mennonite fiction. ![]()
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