Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews is a Canadian author from Steinbach, Manitoba, widely regarded as one of Canada's finest literary voices. Her novels explore themes of faith, family, mental health, and community, often drawing on her Mennonite upbringing with a distinctive blend of humour and heartbreak. A Complicated Kindness is her acclaimed novel about a teenager navigating life in a strict Mennonite community. It won the Governor General's Literary Award and established Toews as a major literary talent. Her audiobooks and books are deeply moving, often darkly funny listening and reading for fans of literary fiction with heart and intelligence.