A complicated kindness

By Miriam Toews

Subjects: Fiction, coming of age, Father-daughter relationship, Single-parent families, Problem families in fiction, Problem families, Fathers and daughters in fiction, Fiction, family life, general, Teenagers, Dysfunctional families, Mennonites in fiction, Vie urbaine, Fathers and daughters, Dysfunctional families in fiction, Teenage girls, Maternal deprivation in fiction, Manners and customs, Maternal deprivation, Romans, nouvelles, Teenage girls in fiction, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Oncles, Manitoba, fiction, Fiction, family life, Mothers, Young women, fiction, Familles, Fiction, Social life and customs, Adolescentes, Mennonites, fiction, Mennonites, Family life

Description: "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.