A Reflection on Healing and Silence: A Review of A Truce That Is Not Peace by Miriam Toews It’s rare to pick up a book and immediately feel a connection, a sense of shared vulnerability. When I opened A Truce That Is Not Peace, Miriam Toews’s latest nonfiction work, I was drawn not just by her reputation as a profound storyteller, but by a familiar theme of grappling with loss and the complexity of familial ties. As difficult as it is to write about grief, Toews does so with...