A Complicated Kindness

Uncorrected Proof. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 246, [4]. Pictorial wraps.

Author's third novel. Winner of the 2004 Govenor-General's Award for Fiction and a finalist for the 2004 Giller Prize for Fiction. 2006 'Canada Reads' winner. Sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel longs to hang out with Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull in New York City's East Village. Instead she's trapped in East Village, Manitoba, a small town whose population is Mennonite: "the most embarrassing sub-sect of people to belong to if you're a teenager." "Wise, edgy, unforgettable, the heroine of Miriam Toews's knockout novel is Canada's next classic." –Globe and Mail