Swing Low (Paperback)

One morning Mel Toews put on his coat and hat and walked out of town prepared to die. A loving husband and father faithful member of the Mennonite church and immensely popular schoolteacher he was a pillar of his close-knit community. Yet after a lifetime of struggle he could no longer face the darkness of manic depression. With razor-sharp precisionSwing Low tells his story in his own voice taking us deep inside the experience of despair. But it is also a funny winsome evocation of country life: growing up on farm courting a wife becoming a teacher and rearing a happy strong family in the midst of private torment. A humane inspiring story of a remarkable man father and teacher.