Swing Low: A Life by Miriam Toews Scholastic she finds a stark warning

she finds a stark warning written in tiny print with coral nail polish on the brick wall beside the body: “Beware of me

would end up saving her home

”—Men’s Journal

and The Globe and Mail

a young woman who gained notoriety at fourteen as the “orphan hacker

Swing Low: A Life by Miriam Toews Scholastic she finds a stark warningFrom the bestselling author of Women Talking, All My Puny Sorrows, and A Complicated Kindness, and Women Talking comes an extraordinary memoir about her father and his struggle with manic depression. One morning, Mel Toews put on his coat and hat and walked out of town, prepared to die. A loving husband and father, faithful member of the Mennonite church, and immensely popular school teacher, he was a pillar of his close knit community. Yet after a