description: What’s a teenaged rebel to do in a smug Mennonite community? If you’re 16-year-old Nomi Nickel — drive aimlessly around the countryside with your pot-smoking boyfriend. Rage against fate and a runaway mother for deserting you in the wrong “East Village.” And put off finishing that English assignment as long as your oddly attentive teacher will let you. Wise, edgy, and wickedly funny, Nomi has wooed thousands of readers with her bittersweet tale of adolescent angst — Mennonite-style — since A Complicated Kindness began climbing North American bestseller lists, appeared in People and O Magazine, and won Canada’s 2004 Governor General’s Award for Fiction. In her droll, refreshing voice, Nomi tells the story of her eccentric, touching family as it falls apart, each member on a collision course with the only community they have ever known.
language: English
title: A Complicated Kindness
titlecomplete: A Complicated Kindness
characters: Natasha "Tash" Dawn Nickel, Gertrude "Trudie" Dora Nickel, Hans "The Mouth" Rosenfeldt, Raymond "Ray" Nickel, Naomi "Nomi" Nickel, Lydia "Lids" Voth, Travis
genres: Fiction, Religion, Coming Of Age, Canadian Literature, Canada, Young Adult, Novels, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 25437
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: BTC Audiobooks