American Book 423592 Swing Low: A Life
By Blackburn, Barbara R.One morning Mel Toews put on his coat and hat walked out of town and took his own life. A loving husband and father a faithful member of the Mennonite church and an immensely popular schoolteacher Mel was a pillar of his close-knit community. Yet after a lifetime of struggling with bipolar disorder he could no longer face the darkness that clouded his world. In this moving meditation on illness family faith and love Mel's daughter critically acclaimed novelist and reporter Miriam Toews recounts her father's life as he would have told it in his own voice right up to the day of his final walk. Swing Low is a bold gracefully written and compassi
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One morning Mel Toews put on his coat and hat walked out of town and took his own life. A loving husband and father a faithful member of the Mennonite church and an immensely popular schoolteacher Mel was a pillar of his close-knit community. Yet after a lifetime of struggling with bipolar disorder he could no longer face the darkness that clouded his world. In this moving meditation on illness family faith and love Mel's daughter critically acclaimed novelist and reporter Miriam Toews recounts her father's life as he would have told it in his own voice right up to the day of his final walk. Swing Low is a bold gracefully written and compassionate recounting of one man's heartbreaking battle with depression. Publisher: Harpercollins Juvenile Books. Author: Toews Miriam. Pages: 240. Dimensions: 7.8 x 0.7 x 5.1. Language: English.