A Complicated Kindness
by:
Miriam Toews (author)
ISBN:
9780571224005 (0571224008)
Publish date: 2005
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Pages no: 247
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Religion,
Coming Of Age,
Contemporary,
Canada,
Canadian Literature
There is a chicken on the front cover of this novel, and an axe hovering threateningly in the upper corner. The relevance of these objects is explained early on - as an adolescent Mennonite girl in a closed community, our first-person narrator Nomi (a childish version of Naomi) has few options for h...
I appreciated this book much more on re-read (it's hard to pick a fave of hers - but at least I now have all three that I've read so far clearly in my mind). I am still slightly more impressed with the two that followed, The Flying Troutmans and Irma Voth, but it's only because ... because ... why?...
3.5 The .5 is for the ending. I liked it and would read more by her but didn't love it. I think this is going to be my last book of 2011.
3.5 The .5 is for the ending. I liked it and would read more by her but didn't love it. I think this is going to be my last book of 2011.
It wasn't the story that necessarily captivated me, but how it brought me back to my own years as a teenager in Manitoba. Things I had forgotten: Reach for the Top, Hymn Sing, and memories faint: bobbing bird, Irish Rovers, Farrah hair with heavy base. Many thanks to the author; it was a good trip h...
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