The prose throughout the book is lively and original and moves along at a steady clip. It is Elf’s debilitating depression and suicidal tendencies that keep the two urgently close as Yoli, for decades, does everything she can to help Elf ward off her psychological problems. Over the course of this tender and bittersweet novel, Elf tours the world while Yoli stays put, has two kids with two different men but stays with neither of the fathers.
While Elfrieda is the genius and the perfectionist, it is the practical, capable Yolandi on whom she depends. When we were kids she would occasionally let me be her page-tuner for the fast pieces that she hadn’t memorized.” This sentence, in the voice of the younger Yolandi, crystallizes the dynamic of the two sisters in Toews’s ( Summer of My Amazing Luck) latest novel.
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