A Complicated Kindness
Nomi Nickel, a heartbreakingly befuddled and wry young woman, is growing up in a small Mennonite town that seeks to both set her on the path to righteousness and suffocate her. When half her family disappears, Nomi is left alone with her father, attempting to avoid a career at the local chicken abattoir while daydreaming of a life elsewhere and, all too soon, finding herself on a collision course with the only community she has ever known.
A Complicated Kindness is a work of fierce originality and brilliance that fearlessly and achingly explores the ties that bind families together and the forces that tear them apart. It is among the best books to read in your 30s.
Miriam Toews, the author, is the author of seven bestselling novels: Women Talking, All My Puny Sorrows, Irma Voth, The Flying Troutmans, A Complicated Kindness, A Boy of Good Breeding, and Summer of My Amazing Luck, and one work of non-fiction, Swing Low: A Life. She has received the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and the Writers Trust Marian Engel/Timothy Findley Award. She currently resides in Toronto.
Author: Miriam Toews
Link to buy: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0735273952?tag=prhca-20
