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Can I read Swing Low : a Life on EtoBox?
Swing Low : a Life by Toews, Miriam, 1964- is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Swing Low : a Life about?
After her father took his own life in 1998, Miriam Toews decided to face her confusion and pain straight on. In writing her father's memoir, she was motivated by two primary goals: For her own sake, she needed to understand, or at least accept, her father's final decision. For her father's sake, she needed to honour him, to elucidate his life and to demonstrate its worth. Apart from its brief prologue and epilogue, Swing Lowis written entirely from Mel Toews's perspective. Miriam Toews has her father tell his story from bed as he waits in a Steinbach hospital to be transferred to a psychiatric facility in Winnipeg. Mel turns to writing to make sense of his condition, to review his life in the hope of seeing it more clearly. He remembers himself as an anxious child, the son of a despondent father and an alcoholic mother, who never once made him feel loved. At seventeen he was diagnosed with manic depression (now known as bipolar disorder). His psychiatrist's predictions were grim: Mel shouldn't count on marrying, starting a family or holding down a job. With great courage and determination, Mel went on to do all three: he married his childhood sweetheart, had two happy daughters and
Who reads Swing Low : a Life?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Toews, Miriam, 1964-
- Publisher
- Toronto: Vintage Canada
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307375612
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Medical, Literary Fiction, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.1 / 5 (158 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14