- Single-parent families, Fiction, Mennonites, Social life and customs
"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.
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Classical in form, earnest, contemporary and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Miriam Toews
- First published
- February 28, 2005
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Vintage Canada, Mao tou ying chu ban, Counterpoint Press
- Editions
- 29
- Language
- srp, cat, French, nor
- ISBN
- 9780571227075
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First sentence
“I live with my father, Ray Nickel, in that low brick bungalow out on highway number twelve.”
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