But this seems right in any case, since Elf’s point of view and feelings are, almost by definition, not neatly explicable: if they were, she wouldn’t be so tormented, not to mention so frequently hospitalized, medicated, and restrained. Because Yoli’s perspective necessarily dominates, we never understand Elf’s feelings as clearly as we do Yoli’s rage and grief and love and baffled desperation. Elfrieda, like Toews’s sister, is a pianist the novel is narrated by Yolandi, who (like Toews) has dealt for much of her life with her sister’s depression and suicide attempts. Miriam Toews’s conspicuously autobiographical novel All My Puny Sorrows is the story of two sisters, Elfrieda and Yolandi - from a Mennonite community, like Toews, and with a father who, like Toews’s, committed suicide.
We had to go back and retrace our steps in the dark which I suppose is the meaning of life.
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