![]() ![]() “She hugs me in the hallway and tells me everything will be all right. ![]() ![]() One of Toews’ trademarks is the high-speed paragraph, sentences rattling at the speed of thought until it suddenly stops, pulled up by horror. Yoli’s voice is by turns dry, manic, heightened to the point of hysteria, furious and profoundly sad. Yolandi (Yoli) is our first-person guide, daughter to a father who has already committed suicide, and sister to the depressed concert pianist Elfrieda (Elf). All My Puny Sorrows (a fragment of a Coleridge poem) is full of moments like this: laughter at the edge of the void. ![]()
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