Bibliograph

A complicated kindness, a novel, Miriam Toews

Type

Label

A complicated kindness, a novel, Miriam Toews

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

A complicated kindness

Oclc number

1035057600

Responsibility statement

Miriam Toews

Sub title

a novel

Summary

Left alone with her sad, peculiar father, Nomi Nickel's 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, a town founded by Mennonites on the cold, flat plains of Manitoba, Canada. This darkly funny novel is the world according to 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

Target audience

adult

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