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Sep 30, 2004 · A Complicated Kindness. Miriam Toews. 3.68. 26,518 ratings1,899 reviews. 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.
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A Complicated Kindness (2004) is the third novel by Canadian author Miriam Toews. The novel won the Governor General's Award for English Fiction, the CBA Libris Fiction Award, and CBC's Canada Reads.
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A Complicated Kindness is a novel by Miriam Toews about a Mennonite girl, Nomi Nickel, who grows up in a conservative community in Canada. The novel explores Nomi's struggles with faith, family, and identity as she rebels against the church and falls in love with a boy.
A Complicated Kindness is a novel by Miriam Toews, a former Mennonite who explores the conflicts between tradition and modernity in a conservative community. The study guide provides summaries, analysis, themes, quotes, characters, symbols, and more for this contemporary realistic fiction.
Sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel longs to hang out with Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull in New York City’s East Village. Instead she’s trapped in East...
“A Complicated Kindness works its way up to a powerful ending through the accumulation of anecdote and detail. . . . Toew’s sense of the absurd works brilliantly to expose the hypocrisy of fundamentalist kindness, a love in reality all too conditional. . . .
A novel about a young Mennonite woman's struggle to escape a small town and her oppressive family. A Complicated Kindness is a Penguin Book Club Pick, a Governor General's Award winner, and a bestseller.
