Crew: Director, screenplay: Michael McGowan, based on the novel by. All My Puny Sorrows is an emotional movie that embraces the totality of the situation, the exasperation, sorrow and even occasional humor. Executive producers: Hussain Amarshi, Peter Gibson, Naveen Prasad. Though there are some underdeveloped aspects (their upbringing in a Mennonite household, Yoli’s experience of motherhood), the novel is a triumph in its depiction of the love the sisters share, as Yoli tries, just as when she was a page turner, to stay a few beats ahead. Producers: Michael McGowan, Patrice Theroux, Tyler Levine. The prose throughout the book is lively and original and moves along at a steady clip. It is Elf’s debilitating depression and suicidal tendencies that keep the two urgently close as Yoli, for decades, does everything she can to help Elf ward off her psychological problems. All My Puny Sorrows, at once tender and unquiet, offers a profound reflection on the limits of love, and the sometimes unimaginable challenges we. Over the course of this tender and bittersweet novel, Elf tours the world while Yoli stays put, has two kids with two different men but stays with neither of the fathers.
While Elfrieda is the genius and the perfectionist, it is the practical, capable Yolandi on whom she depends. When we were kids she would occasionally let me be her page-tuner for the fast pieces that she hadn’t memorized.” This sentence, in the voice of the younger Yolandi, crystallizes the dynamic of the two sisters in Toews’s ( Summer of My Amazing Luck) latest novel.
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