Irma Voth

＂Toews is an artist of escape; she always finds a way for her characters, trapped by circumstance, to liberate themselves.＂ -Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker

Jorge said he wasn’t coming back until I learned how to be a better wife . . .

The life of nineteen-year-old Irma Voth, recently married and more recently deserted, is turned on its head when a film crew arrives to make a movie about the strict Mennonite community in which she and her family live. Against her family’s wishes, Irma takes a job on set and glimpses the wider world and a path towards something that feels like freedom.

Miriam Toews is the author of the bestselling novels Women Talking, Fight Night, All My Puny Sorrows, Summer of My Amazing Luck, A Boy of Good Breeding, A Complicated Kindness, The Flying Troutmans, and the nonfiction works Swing Low and A Truce That Is Not Peace. She is the winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the Writers’ Trust Engel/Findley Award. She lives in Toronto.