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Original Title:	A Complicated Kindness
ISBN:	1582433224 (ISBN13: 9781582433226)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Travis, Naomi "Nomi" Nickel, Raymond "Ray" Nickel, Natasha "Tash" Dawn Nickel, Gertrude "Trudie" Dora Nickel, Hans "The Mouth" Rosenfeldt, Lydia "Lids" Voth
Setting:	Manitoba(Canada)
Literary Awards:	Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee (2004), Governor General's
Literary Awards:	/ Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général for Fiction (2004), Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for Fiction Book (2005), Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award (2005), CBC Canada Reads (2006) McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award (2004)

A Complicated Kindness

Miriam Toews

Paperback | Pages: 253 pages

Rating: 3.65 | 20684 Users | 1345 Reviews

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Title	:	A Complicated Kindness
Author	:	Miriam Toews
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 253 pages
Published	:	August 17th 2005 by Counterpoint LLC (first published September 30th 2004)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Contemporary

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In this stunning coming-of-age novel, award-winner Miriam Toews balances grief and hope in the voice of a witty, beleaguered teenager whose family is shattered by fundamentalist Christianity.

"Half of our family, the better-looking half, is missing," 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 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 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.

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(I read this novel for book club)A Complicated Kindness and a Complicated Book!The synopsis really appealed to me yet the only thing I truly enjoyed about this novel was that the author helped me to reminisce about my years in the 70's. I shared fond memories with the main character as she loved Jesus Christ Superstar and Love's Baby Soft.I found this story read like someone's disjointed diary.Too many unanswered questions and not enough closure left me bewildered at the end.

I'm going to refer to this as the 'chicken book' Required school reading And I have finally completed the chicken book. With books that I must read for school, Im often at a loss when Im asked how I feel about them personally. I dont know how I feel about the book, I dont know how I feel about the characters, and I dont know how I feel about the ending. But I do think we all have a bit of Nomi in us. Nomis a snarky, sarcastic, confused sixteen year-old girl whos just trying to find her

I find most portrayals of confused teenagers depict them as rebellious and rude. I love how in this novel Towes depicts Nomi as a nice person. She is confused as most teenagers are, and this confusion is only compounded by the Mennonite community that surrounds her and the fact that both her mother and sister have mysteriously departed. I also loved that Nomi was honest with herself. She acknowledges what she doesn't know, she (sometimes) acknowledges when she does or says stupid things. She

What a bittersweet story this is. The narrator is a lost and confused soul, trapped in a situation that is not of her own making. But she also has such an amusing way of looking at the world. I rooted for her as I read, hoping that she could find some kind of way out of the predicament she was in.Nomi Nickel is a sixteen-year-old girl living in the fictional Mennonite community of East Village, somewhere in Canada. Her family has recently been torn apart - her older sister Tash ran away to the

I always fall in love with Toews's characters, in this case it's Nomi, a rebellious Mennonite teenager with a dry sense of humor whose family and home furnishings keep disappearing. Nomi lives in the "world's most non-progressive community", East Village, a small deeply religious town in Canada that practices shunning and attracts tourists from around the world who want to witness the simple life first hand, but Nomi's fantasy is to hang out in Greenwich Village with Lou Reed.I read this as

(A slightly edited version of this review appears at The Rumpus.)I started reading A Complicated Kindness on my last day in Barcelona. I ran away to Barcelona because of a girl. Also Id been grumpy and mopey for the previous month or so, due to the whole uncertain future thing, so really the whole disappointment with the girl just kind of tipped me over the edge. I figured I could fritter my money away while moping in Edinburgh, or I could fritter it away travelling.Id never really bothered to

How do you get out of a bad situation if you don't even know it's bad? Or what if you don't know what else is out there? Toews tells her story through the eyes of Nomi Nickel, a 15 year old girl living in the small Mennonite community of East Village, MB. Here, when you finish with high school, you can work at the Mennonite tourist museum or at the local chicken slaughterhouse. Death is the ultimate goal and many Mennos wish it would come sooner. The fear-mongering Menno preacher, 'The Mouth,'