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A complicated kindness

Doomed to work at the Happy Family Farm, a chicken slaughterhouse in a town run by religious fundamentalists, sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel nevertheless manages to bear witness to the dissolution of her family with a dark, sly wit.

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  • "A complicated kindness"@it
  • "Shi er hao gong lu nü hai"
  • "十二號公路女孩"

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  • ""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."
  • "Nomi Nickel is sixteen, rebellious and lives with her father in a strict Mennonite community in East Village, Manitoba__"
  • "Growing up in an isolated Canadian Mennonite community in the 1980s, Nomi knows that there is a world beyond the single Main Street of her town. A senior in high school, she is drifting downward in a haze of drugs, thoughts of sex, and lethargy, knowing she needs to escape this repressive, fundamentalist community but unable or unwilling to take the first step."
  • "Governor General's Award Winner 2004."
  • "In a small Mennonite town in southern Manitoba, teenager Nomi Nickel tries to find out the truth behind her mother's and sister's disappearances, and ultimately finds herself in conflict with her religious uncle and her community."
  • "Doomed to work at the Happy Family Farm, a chicken slaughterhouse in a town run by religious fundamentalists, sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel nevertheless manages to bear witness to the dissolution of her family with a dark, sly wit."@en
  • "Meet Nomi Nickel, the rebellious small town teenager and irresistible creation of award-winning novelist Miriam Toews."@en
  • "A Mennonite woman seeking to accept her place in the community or move on also tries to determine why her mother and sister have disappeared."

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  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Sagas"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Book club kit"@en
  • "Powieść kanadyjska w języku angielskim"
  • "Bildungsromans"
  • "Bildungsromans"@en
  • "Roman familial"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Large type books"
  • "Large type books"@en

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  • "Galgenliefde"
  • "A complicated kindness"@en
  • "A complicated kindness"
  • "A complicated kindness a novel"
  • "12號公路女孩"
  • "A complicated kindness a novel"@en
  • "Complicada bondad"
  • "Complicada bondad"@es
  • "Livet som det kunne have vaeret"
  • "Helvetes paradis"
  • "Complicated kindness"@en
  • "Yaruethan chinjeol"
  • "Complicated Kindness"
  • "12 hao gong lu nu hai"
  • "A complicated kindness : a novel"
  • "Livet som det kunne have været"@da
  • "Drôle de tendresse : roman"
  • "12號公路女孩 / A complicated kindness / Miriam Toews"
  • "Ein komplizierter Akt der Liebe : Roman"
  • "Un complicato atto d'amore"
  • "Un complicato atto d'amore"@it
  • "Ein komplizierter Akt der Liebe Roman"
  • "A complicated kindness : a novel : book club in a bag"
  • "12 hao gong lu nü hai / A complicated kindness / Miriam Toews"
  • "A Complicated kindness : a novel"
  • "Komplikovana dobrota : roman"

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