![]() ![]() Yolanda is opposite, divorced, broke, looking for love with all the wrong partners, reckless: a mess. Elfrieda is beautiful, wealthy, sophisticated, happily married, and an internationally acclaimed pianist yet, she wants to die. Elfrieda (Elf) and Yolanda (Yoli), sisters. That e’en from friendship’s eye will shrink ashamed. To her I pour’d forth all my puny sorrows With noiseless step, and watchest the faint look, Thou creepest round a dear-loved sister’s bed In fancy (well I know)įrom business wand’ring far and local cares, Tedious to thee, and from thy anxious thought I ask not now, my friend! the aiding verse Thus far my scanty brain hath built the rhyme The title of Miriam Toews’s latest novel was taken from a line in a poem by 18th Century poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a portion of which I quote (my emphasis): ![]()
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