A Complicated Kindness
by Miriam Toews | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0676976131 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0676976131 Global Overview for this book
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A 16-year-old rebels against the conventions of her strict Mennonite community and tries to come to terms with the collapse of her family in this insightful, irreverent coming-of-age novel. In bleak rural Manitoba, Nomi longs for her older sister, Tash ("she was so earmarked for damnation it wasn't even funny"), and mother, Trudie, each of whom has recently fled fundamentalist Christianity and their town. Her gentle, uncommunicative father, Ray, isn't much of a sounding board as Nomi plunges into bittersweet memory and grapples with teenage life in a "kind of a cult with pretend connections to some normal earthly conventions." Once a "curious, hopeful child" Nomi now relies on biting humor as her life spins out of control—she stops attending school, shaves her head and wanders around in a marijuana-induced haze—while Ray sells off most of their furniture, escapes on all-night drives and increasingly withdraws into himself. Still, she and Ray are linked in a tender, if fragile, partnership as each slips into despair.
It came in Kimmi's Canadian author book box. Again another one of Aunt-Sophie. Lol we sure do seem to read the same books. lol. On my tbr pile.
Not really going to have time to read this one so I want to get it on its journey. :) I am making it available.
Journal Entry 5 by froggie66 at -- Somewhere In Ottawa in Ottawa, Ontario Canada on Saturday, May 29, 2010
Released 13 yrs ago (5/29/2010 UTC) at -- Somewhere In Ottawa in Ottawa, Ontario Canada
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In the green basket. I didn't get to read it but felt it should continue on its journey. :)
