Irma Voth (27 page)

Many thanks to Neal Rempel for kindly giving me permission to use some of the details of his play
The Last Words of Duct Schultz
for my own purposes in the book, beginning on
this page
.

MIRIAM TOEWS is the author of four previous novels:
Summer of My Amazing Luck; A Boy of Good Breeding
;
A Complicated Kindness
(winner of the 2004 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction) and
The Flying Troutmans
(winner of the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize), and one work of non-fiction,
Swing Low: A Life
. She lives in Toronto.