Pinching Zwieback

Pinching Zwieback: Made-up Stories from the Darp focuses on recurrent, related characters with a common reality: small town Mennonite life. It's socially engaged autofiction based heavily on the author's own background and experiences. The loosely linked stories read like a novel with characters whose lives are given form by the past but undergo change as the world reshapes beliefs and circumstances.


Author Mitchell Toews', who grew up in his parents' Mennonite bakery in Steinbach Manitoba, ...