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Toews is the one to read; but hasn’t the entire population of Canada already read it? Okay, I’ll admit I haven’t but I’m absolutely racing right out immediately to buy a copy. Serious!
Toews’s coming-of-age story set in a Mennonite community in Manitoba centres on Nomi, a 16-year-old who reflects with humour and pathos on her aimless life. “I think she’ll be one of those characters who inspire other books. There are girls reading this now who will go on to write other novels,” said singer-songwriter John K. Samson, who initially selected the book. A Complicated Kindness strongly evokes its setting, he said. “I can smell the place. I know that place,” he said.
Yup. The smell of prairie grass.
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April 21st, 2006 at 4:22 pm
“Kindness” is indeed a good one. Read it!
April 24th, 2006 at 11:01 am
Yes, it is the book that didn’t need the publicity; still, it’s a good book. Full disclosure: I am another one of those prairie writers, or is that writers who happen to live on the prairies.