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A complicated kindness / Miriam Toews.

by Toews, Miriam, 1964-

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A.A. Knopf Canada, c2004.

Families -- Fiction.

Mennonites -- Fiction.

Missing persons -- Fiction.

CLA Young Adult Book Award.

Governor General's Award.

Manitoba -- Fiction.

Canada reads ; 2006.

9780735273955 (2017 Vintage Canada trade pbk.)

9780676976137 (trade pbk.)

9780676976120 (hc.)

246 p. ; 22 cm.

A portrayal of a stifling Mennonite town -- a novel that is at once brilliant, hilarious, and revelatory. Left alone with her father, Nomi spends her time piecing together the reasons her sister Natasha and mother Trudie have gone missing and trying to figure out what she can do to avoid a career at Happy Family Farms, a chicken abattoir on the outskirts of East Village -- not the neighbourhood in Manhattan where Nomi most wants to live but a small Mennonite town in southern Manitoba. East Village is ministered by Nomi’s Uncle Hans, or as Nomi calls him, The Mouth. A fiercely pious and religious man, The Mouth has found both Trudie and Natasha wanting and has orchestrated their shunning by the community.

Winner of the CLA Young Adult Book Award, 2005.

Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, 2004.

Winner of the Canada Reads Competition, 2006.

Canadian fiction.

Psychological fiction.

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