A superb Bildungsroman that cleaves into fundamentalism and family ties.Įxtra: Here is a great review of A Complicated Kindness from Quill & Quire. Plying herself with verboten drugs and feeding off of a teenage love, Nomi attempts to keep herself- and her fading father- in one piece, while trying to come to terms with the disappearance of her mother and sister. Set in a stark Mennonite town in Manitoba, sixteen year old Nomi takes the reader on a fascinatingly eerie, broken-down and droll look into her present-day, past, and possible future. But, my goodness, I was so taken with narrator Nomi’s story. I mentioned in a previous post that I had this sitting on my shelves for far too long- I kept putting this read off, for whatever reasons. I don’t think I can adequately express just how devastating, unfamiliar, and outstanding I found this novel to be.
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