Complicated Kindness
Miriam Toews
A witty, beleaguered teenager whose family is shattered by fundamentalist Christianity balances grief and hope in this coming-of-age novel. Left alone with her sad, peculiar father, she spends her days piecing together why her mother and sister left.






There's this bit where the narrator describes the morbid syntax of an old Eastern European woman in town, who says stuff like "Slice me open a bun", or "Throw me down the stairs a face-cloth". That's perfect, isn't it?

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