5/28/2023 0 Comments All my puny sorrows book review(For myself only–I think my husband may be on Facebook and Reddit while he’s sleeping.) I know that Mennonites are Christians, and that they’re sort of like the Amish but not really. One regret I have about this book is that I didn’t get a chance to research Mennonites as well as I would have normally while I was reading since I read so much of it on planes, or in bed, where I have a fairly strict no devices before going to sleep policy. This novel is not especially plot-driven it’s more about Yoli figuring out her somewhat messed up life (she is getting divorced, drinks too much, has a fairly successful career writing books that mean very little to her, has two teenaged children who seem like good kids, but she definitely isn’t happy) and coming to terms with finally losing the person who means the most to her. Her reasons for continuing to attempt suicide are never quite defined other than that she wants to not be alive anymore. Elfreida is a pianist, and a very famous and accomplished one. The novel is narrated by Yolandi, a writer of “rodeo novels,” and a lapsed Mennonite, who travels home to Winnipeg from Toronto to be with her sister Elfrieda who has tried to kill herself. It was probably one of my favorite surprises of the Indiespensible books I’ve read-I wasn’t excited to read it but I ended up really enjoying it, despite the heavy subject matter. I read it over the summer, mostly while I was travelling to and from Georgia to visit my aunt with my parents. This one was Indiespensible #50 from Powell’s back in November of 2014.
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