{"product_id":"a-complicated-kindness-paperback","title":"A Complicated Kindness - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMiriam Toews\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis \"darkly funny and provocative\" coming-of-age novel balances grief and hope in the voice of a witty teenage girl whose Canadian family is shattered by fundamentalist Christianity (\u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eWomen Talking\u003c\/i\u003e--now an Academy Award-winning film starring Claire Foy, Rooney Mara, Frances McDormand, and Jessie Buckley\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Half of our family, the better-looking half, is missing,\" Nomi Nickel tells us at the beginning of \u003ci\u003eA Complicated Kindness\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMiriam Toews\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Complicated Kindness\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Governor General's Award and finalist for the Giller Prize, \u003ci\u003eA Boy of Good Breeding\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSwing Low: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e. She has written for \"This American Life,\" and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.9 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 22, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiz Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Complicated Kindness\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e Upper Grades, 9-12\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e 5.5\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e 12\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42730226352191,"sku":"9781640091412","price":20.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/4ebe8ae295d8e4f64794362be971d7da.webp?v=1765125302","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/a-complicated-kindness-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}