Miriam Toews: Push to install plaque at writers former Steinbach home [Video]

A Steinbach writer has launched an online fundraiser to install a plaque at the Steinbach, Man. home where Miriam Toews spent her teen years.

Andrew Unger launched a GoFundMe last week, calling for donations towards a $1,500 goal to pay for the plaque.

As of Wednesday, it had already raised $1,200.

“I thought that there needed to be some recognition of Miriam Toews in Steinbach and up until now, there has not been anything,” Unger told CTV News Winnipeg in a phone interview.

Unger says he got involved with the fundraising effort after he heard through word of mouth that the home had been sold, and the new owners were keen on the idea.

The home itself has been immortalized in the opening lines of Toews’ Governor General’s Award-winning book “A Complicated Kindness,” described as a “low brick bungalow out on highway number twelve.”

Unger commissioned a design, priced out the project and talked with the city to see where it can be placed.

Unger, a writer himself, counts Toews as an inspiration.

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