![]() Yeah, he uses those exact butt-clenching words. Now my dad, you know what he says in the middle of those long evenings sitting in our house on the highway? He says: Say, Nomi, how about spinning a platter. Read an excerpt | Author interviews | More about this book The book won Canada Reads in 2006, when it was championed by John K. Miriam Toews on the war she didn't know she was winningĪ Complicated Kindness won the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction, and was a finalist for the Giller Prize.Miriam Toews: 5 books that changed my life.The Mouth of Darkness, East Village is a town that's tall on rules and short on fun: no dancing, drinking, rock 'n' roll, recreational sex, swimming, make-up, jewellery, playing pool, going to cities or staying up past nine o'clock. Ministered with an iron fist by Nomi's uncle Hans, a.k.a. 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." East Village is a town with no train and no bar whose job prospects consist of slaughtering chickens at the Happy Family Farms abattoir or churning butter for tourists at the pioneer village. Sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel longs to hang out with Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull in New York City's East Village. The great Canadian reading list: 150 books to read for Canada 150. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |