A complicated kindness

Miriam Toews First published 2005

About this book

"A 16-year-old rebels against the conventions of her strict Mennonite community and tries to come to terms with the collapse of her family ..."--Publishers Weekly.

Subjects

  • adolescentes
  • dysfunctional families
  • dysfunctional families in fiction
  • familles
  • family life
  • father-daughter relationship
  • fathers and daughters
  • fathers and daughters, fiction
  • fathers and daughters in fiction
  • fiction
  • fiction, coming of age
  • fiction, family life
  • fiction, family life, general
  • manitoba, fiction
  • manners and customs
  • maternal deprivation
  • maternal deprivation in fiction
  • mennonites
  • mennonites, fiction
  • mennonites in fiction
  • mothers
  • oncles
  • problem families
  • problem families in fiction
  • romans, nouvelles
  • single-parent families
  • social life and customs
  • teenage girls
  • teenage girls in fiction
  • teenagers
  • vie urbaine
  • young women, fiction