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"A Complicated Kindness captures the struggles of a family and its individuals in a fresh, wondrous style . . . [A] beautiful and bitter little masterpiece." ―The Believer

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.

"A darkly funny and provocative novel." ―O, the Oprah Magazine

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  • Reissued to correspond with the publication of Toews' new book (Bloomsbury), Women Talking
  • This reissue, like Counterpoint's recent reissues of works by Eve Babitz, Mary Robison, Ruth Jhabvala, and others, signals a commitment to keeping this important writer's work widely available to passionate fans and new readers alike
  • An important backlist must-have for any serious literary fiction section, as well as for MFA and Canadian/Contemporary Lit course adoptions
  • About the Author

    MIRIAM TOEWS is the author of seven novels: All My Puny Sorrows, Summer of My Amazing Luck, A Boy of Good Breeding, A Complicated Kindness, The Flying Troutmans, Irma Voth, and Women Talking, and one work of nonfiction, Swing Low: A Life. She is a winner of 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 lives in Toronto.

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    • Publication date2019
    • ISBN 10 1640091416
    • ISBN 13 9781640091412
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