Miriam Toews' emotionally raw bestseller translates awkwardly to the screen, despite heartfelt performances from Alison Pill, Sarah Gadon and Mare Winningham. Miriam Toews’ 2014 novel “All My Puny ...

It was late at night when I finished “All My Puny Sorrows,” the heartbreaking, valiant, very funny new novel by Miriam Toews. Everyone was asleep. I slipped out of bed and went into the darkened ...

Alison Pill as Yoli in All My Puny Sorrows. Photo Courtesy of Momentum Pictures. Stepping into the shoes of a devoted young woman whose sister is grappling with deep depression after a suicide attempt ...

Debuting On Demand and digital May 3rd is the new drama ‘All My Puny Sorrows,’ which is based on the novel of the same name by Miriam Toews. Moviefone recently had the pleasure of speaking with Alison ...

“I don’t want to die alone. I don’t want you to die at all.” This concept of life and death is the conflicting dynamic in All My Puny Sorrows. Directed by Michael McGowan (Still Mine), the film ...

Sarah Gadon (left) and Alison Pill play sisters who contemplate the meaning of life and death in 'All My Puny Sorrows,' based on Miriam Toews' bestselling novel. Michael McGowan is a screenwriter, ...

Miriam Toews’ 2014 novel “All My Puny Sorrows” thrives on the kind of fraught tonal whiplash that comes with the most intimate of relationships to one’s subject. Inspired by the suicide of the ...

Is life worth living if you lose the desire to go on? This is one of the questions raised in Miriam Toews' autobiographical novel. "All My Puny Sorrows" follows a suicidal concert pianist, Elf, and ...

“I, too, a sister had, an only sister — / She loved me dearly and I doted on her / To her I pour’d forth all my puny sorrows / (As a sick patient in a nurse’s arms.) / And of the heart those hidden ...

The story of Brittany Maynard, the terminally ill woman in Oregon who committed suicide in November after making her intention public, forces us to consider — or repress — wrenching questions about ...

Miriam Toews' sixth novel is bold, brash and big-hearted. All My Puny Sorrows tells the story of two Mennonite sisters in Canada who seemingly could not be more different. Elfrieda is the success, ...