Miriam Toews joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “ Elephant,” by Raymond Carver, which was published in The New Yorker in 1986. Toews has published ten books, including the novels “ A Complicated Kindness,” which won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction; “ All My Puny Sorrows,” “ Women Talking,” and “ Fight Night ”—and the memoir “ A Truce That Is Not Peace.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices