SWING LOW: A Life
Miriam Toews, . . Arcade, $23.95 (191pp) ISBN 978-1-55970-587-5
Toews's father, Mel, lived the simple life of a faithful Mennonite community member in mid-20th-century Canada, as a schoolteacher, father and devout churchgoer. In 1952, only a few knew he had been diagnosed with manic depression at age 17, and his struggle to conceal this from the world and maintain a "normal" life met with varying degrees of success until retirement shook his self-image and he began to slide into his most serious depression. This ordinary but poignant biography, written by his daughter (
Reviewed on: 10/08/2001
Genre: Nonfiction
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