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A Truce That Is Not Peace

by Miriam Toews

NPR Books We Love · Recommendation

A Truce That Is Not Peace by Miriam Toews appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around book club ideas, seriously great writing, biography & memoir, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.

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