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Athens: Kelefthos, 2009 Book. Very Good. French Wraps. 1st Greek Ed... 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…
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Paraxeni Kalosyni [ A Complicated Kindness] Paperback - 2009
by Toews, Miriam
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- Title Paraxeni Kalosyni [ A Complicated Kindness]
- Author Toews, Miriam
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Greek Ed.
- Publisher Kelefthos, Athens
- Date 2009
- ISBN 9789609812030
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Paraxeni Kalosyni [ A Complicated Kindness]
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