Mennonite Manitoba stories on tap for Free Press book club
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This article was published 09/11/2024 (326 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The Free Press Book Club and McNally Robinson Booksellers are pleased to welcome Steinbach-raised author Mitchell Toews to the next virtual meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 26 at 7 p.m. to read from and discuss his book Pinching Zwieback.
Published in 2023 by Winnipeg’s At Bay Press, Pinching Zwieback is a collection of loosely connected short stories all set within the same world, the fictional Prairie village of Hartplatz, Man., and largely focused on the same family, the Zehens — specifically Matthew and his father Hart, who runs a bakery in town.
In the 20 linked stories Toews has created, characters pop in and out, are introduced and then briefly forgotten, re-emerging later in the book in a different stage of life, bringing new voices in the form of kids and grandkids along with them.
Janice Toews photo
Mitchell Toews
Though these stories are “made up from the darp,” as Toews says, Pinching Zwieback reads like a memoir; the characters Toews has developed feel full, real and relatable.
In her December 2023 Free Press review of Pinching Zwieback, Patricia Dawn Robertson said, “Every sentence in this collection rings true: the tight-knit social circles, the rigid class hierarchy, the heightened community expectations and the urgent need to transcend suffocating religious constraints … Pinching Zwieback reads like a master class in the short story form. It’s character-driven fiction par excellence,” adding, “These may be ‘made-up’ stories from the darp, but they read like field reports on the human condition.”
Toews will join Free Press literary editor Ben Sigurdson, Daniel Bear of McNally Robinson Booksellers and Free Press audience engagement manager Erin Lebar to read from Pinching Zwieback, discuss the book and field questions from viewers and readers.
Copies of Pinching Zwieback are available to purchase at McNally Robinson; there’s no cost to join the book club or virtual discussion.
Video of the meeting will be available for replay on the Free Press YouTube channel following the event.
Pinching Zwieback
To join and for more information on current and future book picks, visit wfp.to/bookclub.
Ben Sigurdson
Literary editor, drinks writer
Ben Sigurdson is the Free Press‘s literary editor and drinks writer. He graduated with a master of arts degree in English from the University of Manitoba in 2005, the same year he began writing Uncorked, the weekly Free Press drinks column. He joined the Free Press full time in 2013 as a copy editor before being appointed literary editor in 2014. Read more about Ben.
In addition to providing opinions and analysis on wine and drinks, Ben oversees a team of freelance book reviewers and produces content for the arts and life section, all of which is reviewed by the Free Press’s editing team before being posted online or published in print. It’s part of the Free Press‘s tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press’s history and mandate, and learn how our newsroom operates.
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Ben Sigurdson
Literary editor, drinks writer
Ben Sigurdson is the Free Press‘s literary editor and drinks writer. He graduated with a master of arts degree in English from the University of Manitoba in 2005, the same year he began writing Uncorked, the weekly Free Press drinks column. He joined the Free Press full time in 2013 as a copy editor before being appointed literary editor in 2014. Read more about Ben.
In addition to providing opinions and analysis on wine and drinks, Ben oversees a team of freelance book reviewers and produces content for the arts and life section, all of which is reviewed by the Free Press’s editing team before being posted online or published in print. It’s part of the Free Press‘s tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press’s history and mandate, and learn how our newsroom operates.
Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider becoming a subscriber.
Our newsroom depends on its audience of readers to power our journalism. Thank you for your support.
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