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A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
$27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Nomi Nickel is a heartbreakingly bewildered and wry young woman trying to survive in a repressive Mennonite community. This funny and compassionate novel examines the ties that bind families and the forces that tear them apart. Shortlisted for the Canadian Giller Prize and Governor General
A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel longs to hang out with Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull in New York City''s East Village. Instead she''s trapped in East Village, Manitoba, a small town whose population is Mennonite: "the most embarrassing sub-sect of people to belong to if you''re a teenager." East Village ...Show more
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Yolanda is conflicted. Her sister Elf has battled depression for her whole adult life, and is in a psychiatric ward under permanent observation after attempting suicide - again. Yolanda has always looked up to Elf as her talented and beautiful older sister. She loves her with a fierce passion and wants ...Show more
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Shortlisted for the Folio Prize 2015Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2015Sunday Times Top Choice Summer Read Elf and Yoli are two smart, loving sisters. Elf is a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to die. Yoli is divorced, broke, sleeping with the wrong men: ...Show more
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Shortlisted for the Folio Prize 2015 Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2015 Sunday Times Top Choice Summer Read Elf and Yoli are two smart, loving sisters. Elf is a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to die. Yoli is divorced, broke, sleeping with the wrong men: ...Show more
Fight Night by Miriam Toews
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Poignant, hilarious and deeply moving, Fight Night is a girl's love letter to the women raising her and a tribute to one family's fighting spirit. You are a small thing, and you must learn to fight. Swiv has taken her grandmother's advice too literally. Now she's at home, suspended from school. Mom is ...Show more
Fight Night by Miriam Toews
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Sets standards for grandmotherly swearing and outspokenness I can never hope to match. Go Grandma Elvira!' Margaret Atwood INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHORLONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 'Go Grandma Elvira!' - Margaret Atwood 'Wickedly funny and fearlessly honest.' - The New Yorker 'Glorious.' ...Show more
Women Talking by Miriam Toews
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
National Bestseller "This amazing, sad, shocking, but touching novel, based on a real-life event, could be right out of The Handmaid's Tale.+? --Margaret Atwood, on Twitter"Scorching . . . Women Talking is a wry, freewheeling novel of ideas that touches on the nature of evil, questions of free will, col ...Show more
Women Talking by Miriam Toews
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD: A transformative and necessary work--as completely unexpected as it is inspired--by the award-winning author of the bestselling novels All My Puny Sorrows and A Complicated Kindness.The sun rises on a quiet June morning in 2009. August Epp sits alone ...Show more
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