A Complicated Kindness

Name: A Complicated Kindness
Author: Miriam Toews

by Miriam Toews

Mennonite teenager rebels against her strict religious community

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Miriam Toews

Canadian novelist of Mennonite background whose A Complicated Kindness is a beloved coming-of-age novel of Mennonite community life. Women Talking, about sexual assault in a Bolivian Mennonite colony, became an acclaimed film. She is one of Canada's most celebrated and original literary voices.

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Women TalkingEight women discuss their response to sexual assault in their community
All My Puny SorrowsSister's suicide haunts her family through grief and dark humor
The Flying TroutmansEstranged family reunites for a road trip of reckoning
Irma VothMennonite woman's marriage unravels while she searches for her daughter