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Miriam Toewss Oscars second exposes a sophisticated relationship along with her Mennonite hometown
East of Winnipeg, a billboard on the Trans Canada Freeway marks the turnoff to Steinbach, Man., hometown of writer Miriam Toews. Pictures in Steinbach by Shannon VanRaes/The Globe and Mail Miriam Toewss phrases forged an extended shadow over Steinbach, even 20 years on. Thats the factor about this city theres no room for in between, she wrote in A Sophisticated Kindness of the Manitoba metropolis she grew up in. Youre in or youre out. Youre good or youre dangerous. Truly, superb or very dangerous. Or superb at being very dangerous with out being detected. The novel, revealed 20 years in the past, explored the authors Mennonite roots. It shot Ms.…