A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
In this stunning coming-of-age novel, award-winner Miriam Toews balances grief and hope in the voice of a witty, beleaguered teenager whose family is shattered by fundamentalist ChristianityHalf of our family, the better-looking half, is missing, Nomi Nickel tells us at the beginning of A Complicated Kindness. Left alone with her sad, peculiar father, her days are spent piecing together why her mother and sister have disappeared and contemplating her inevitable career at Happy Family Farms, a chicken slaughterhouse on the outskirts of East Village. Not the East Village in New York City where Nomi would prefer to live, but an oppressive town founded by Mennonites on the cold, flat plains of Manitoba, Canada. This darkly funny novel is the world according to the unforgettable Nomi, a bewildered and wry sixteen-year-old trapped in a town governed by fundamentalist religion and in the shattered remains of a family it destroyed. In Nomi's droll, refreshing voice, we're told the story of an eccentric, loving family that falls apart as each member lands on a collision course with the only community any of them have ever known. A work of fierce humor and tragedy by a writer who has taken the American market by storm, this searing, tender, comic testament to family love will break your heart.
Miriam Toews is the author of A Complicated Kindness, which won the Governor General's Award and was a finalist for the Giller Prize, A Boy of Good Breeding, and Swing Low: A Life, which won the Governor General's Award and was a finalist for the Giller Prize. She's written for NPR's This American Life and the New York Times Magazine, among other publications. She is a resident of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780676976120 |
| ISBN 10 | 0676976123 |
| Title | A Complicated Kindness |
| Author | Miriam Toews |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Knopf Canada |
| Year published | 2004-04-20 |
| Number of pages | 246 |
| Prizes | Libris Awards |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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