All My Puny Sorrows Author:Miriam Toews Two sisters in their forties, daughters of a "complicated" Mennonite family: Elfreida and Yolandi. Elf, happily married, wealthy, glamorous, sophisticated, is a world-renowned pianist; she wants to die. Yoli, divorced, broke, promiscuous, is author of a soon-to-be defunct series of YA rodeo novels; she wants to keep her sister alive.&n... more »bsp;
Elf's latest suicide attempt is...well, bad timing: she is 3 weeks away from the opening of her 5-city tour. Her long-time agent Claudio has been calling and neither Yolandi nor Elf's loving husband knows what to tell him. Can she be nursed back to "health" in time? Does it matter?
As the cast of characters grows, the situation gets ever more complicated, and Yoli faces the most difficult decision of her life.« less