num_pages: 247
description: Nomi Nickel lives with her father, Ray, in East Village, a small Mennonite town in Manitoba. She dreams of escaping to the big city, but since her mother and sister left home, it's hard to imagine leaving her father behind. As she begins to piece together the story behind her mother's disappearance, she finds herself on a direct collision course with the town's minister. With fierce originality and brilliance, Miriam Toews takes us straight to the centre of Nomi's world and the complicated kindness at the heart of family life.
language: English
title: A Complicated Kindness
titlecomplete: A Complicated Kindness
characters: Naomi "Nomi" Nickel, Gertrude "Trudie" Dora Nickel, Travis, Natasha "Tash" Dawn Nickel, Raymond "Ray" Nickel, Hans "The Mouth" Rosenfeldt, Lydia "Lids" Voth
genres: Canada, Novels, Literary Fiction, Young Adult, Religion, Canadian Literature, Fiction, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Coming Of Age
ratings_count: 25439
places: Manitoba
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Scotiabank Giller Prize, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award
category: Fiction Book, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: CBC Canada Reads, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award
publisher: Faber & Faber