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A complicated kindness [electronic resource] : a novel / Miriam Toews.
Meet Nomi Nickel, the rebellious small town teenager and irresistible creation of award-winning novelist Miriam Toews.
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- ISBN: 9781582438894 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1582438897 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780307371157 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0307371158 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (253 pages)
- Publisher: New York : Counterpoint, ©2004.
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| General Note: | "Originally published by Knopf Canada. Published also by Faber and Faber in the UK."--Title page verso. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Electronic books. Fiction. Bildungsromans. |
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- Baker & Taylor
Doomed to work at the Happy Family Farm, a chicken slaughterhouse in a town run by religious fundamentalists, sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel nevertheless manages to bear witness to the dissolution of her family with a dark, sly wit. - Open Road Media
From the award-winning author of Women Talking: 'A darkly funny and provocative novel' of family, faith, and adolescent angst (O, The Oprah Magazine).
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'Half of our family, the better-looking half, is missing," Nomi Nickel explains at the beginning of A Complicated Kindness. Left alone with her sad, peculiar father, her days are spent piecing together why her mother and sister disappeared, dreaming of escape, and contemplating her inevitable career at Happy Family Farms, a chicken slaughterhouse on the outskirts of East Village. This is not the East Village in New York City, where Nomi would prefer to live, but an oppressive town founded by Mennonites on the cold, flat plains of Manitoba, Canada.
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A wry yet bewildered sixteen-year-old, Nomi is trapped in a town governed by fundamentalist religion. In her droll voice, she tells the story of her eccentric, loving family whose members each find themselves on a collision course with the only community they've ever known.
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Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award and drawing comparison to J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, 'A Complicated Kindness just may be a future classic in its own right' (The Philadelphia Inquirer). - Perseus PublishingMeet Nomi Nickel, the rebellious small town teenager and irresistible creation of award-winning novelist Miriam Toews.
- Perseus Publishing
From the award-winning author of Women Talking: âA darkly funny and provocative novelâ of family, faith, and adolescent angst (O, The Oprah Magazine).
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âHalf of our family, the better-looking half, is missing,â Nomi Nickel explains at the beginning of A Complicated Kindness. Left alone with her sad, peculiar father, her days are spent piecing together why her mother and sister disappeared, dreaming of escape, and contemplating her inevitable career at Happy Family Farms, a chicken slaughterhouse on the outskirts of East Village. This is not the East Village in New York City, where Nomi would prefer to live, but an oppressive town founded by Mennonites on the cold, flat plains of Manitoba, Canada.
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A wry yet bewildered sixteen-year-old, Nomi is trapped in a town governed by fundamentalist religion. In her droll voice, she tells the story of her eccentric, loving family whose members each find themselves on a collision course with the only community theyâve ever known.
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Winner of the Governor Generalâs Literary Award and drawing comparison to J. D. Salingerâs The Catcher in the Rye, âA Complicated Kindness just may be a future classic in its own rightâ (The Philadelphia Inquirer). - Random House, Inc.
This âdarkly funny and provocativeâ coming-of-age novel balances grief and hope in the voice of a witty teenage girl whose Canadian family is shattered by fundamentalist Christianity (O, The Oprah Magazine).
From the author of Women Talkingânow an Academy Award-winning film starring Claire Foy, Rooney Mara, Frances McDormand, and Jessie Buckley
âHalf of our family, the betterâlooking half, is missing,â Nomi Nickel tells us at the beginning of A Complicated Kindness. Left alone with her sad, peculiar father, her 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. Not the East Village in New York City where Nomi would prefer to live, but an oppressive town founded by Mennonites on the cold, flat plains of Manitoba, Canada.
This darkly funny novel is the world according to the unforgettable Nomi, a bewildered and wry sixteenâyearâold 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 work of fierce humor and tragedy by a writer who has taken the American market by storm, this searing, tender, comic testament to family love will break your heart.
