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A complicated kindness : a novel Cover Image Book Book

A complicated kindness : a novel

Toews, Miriam. (Author).

Summary: 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.

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  • ISBN: 9780676976120 (hc.)
  • ISBN: 9780676978568 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780676976137
  • Physical Description: print
    246 p. ; 22 cm.
  • Publisher: Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2004.

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Awards Note:
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, (April 2006).

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Subject: Families -- Fiction
Missing persons -- Fiction
Mennonites -- Fiction
Manitoba -- Fiction
Genre: Canadian fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Canadian Library Association Young Adult Canadian Book Award.

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  • 5 of 5 copies available at South Central Regional Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 5 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Altona Library F Toe (Text) 35864000959732 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Manitou Library F Toe (Text) 36620000112964 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Miami Library F Toe (Text) 35864000667624 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Morden Library F Toe (Text) 35864000883635 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Winkler Library F Toe (Text) 35864000163186 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
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