![]() First, Toews told her daughter: “Grandpa was hit by a train.” The child took that in, until later she came back and said: “But grandpa wasn’t blind.” Toews admitted that was true – he would have seen the train. Talking to me over Zoom from the home she shares with her two adult children and four young grandchildren in Canada, the award-winning writer of seven bestselling novels, including 2018’s Women Talking, tells me how the conversation went. Looking back, she reflects: “I probably handled the conversation badly.” The author admits that she was “feeling probably more stricken, more surprised than they were”. ![]() How do you talk to children about suicide? When Miriam Toews’ father took his own life in 1998, her own were just eight and 11 years old. ![]() Miriam Toews on leaving the Mennonite community: ‘Sometimes you just have to go running in the opposite direction, smash things to the ground in your mind’ (Getty) ![]()
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