Miriam Toews on The Flying Troutmans
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This from Random House: "Miriam Toews\\u2026was born in 1964 in the small Mennonite town of Steinbach, Manitoba. She left at eighteen, living in Montreal and London and touring Europe before coming back to Manitoba, where she earned a B.A. in film studies at the University of Manitoba. Later she packed up with her children and partner and moved to Halifax to attend the University of King\\u2019s College, where she received a bachelor\\u2019s degree in journalism. Upon returning to Winnipeg with her family in 1991, she freelanced at the CBC, making radio documentaries.\\xa0When her youngest daughter started nursery school, Toews decided it was\\xa0time to try writing a novel."\\xa0
She\\u2019s written four to date, including A Complicated Kindness which won the GG\\u2019s Award for Best Fiction in 2004. We talk here about her latest The Flying Troutmans, about her father\\u2019s struggle with depression and the stigma that still surrounds mental illness, about road trips and siblings, the definition of love, the film Little Miss Sunshine, writing novels with movie deals in mind, trust, abandonment and Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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