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    <body><![CDATA[This book is great, but I found one of the main characters, Hosea, so annoying that I hated it when I would get to one of his parts of the book. He wasn't a bad character, just a little crazy. And I kept thinking, &quot;yes, he's crazy, we get it, now let's get back to the better characters.&quot; ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4502489">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is funny and entertaining, but I still prefer Toews's first two  more serious books. While highlighting the daily lives of the characters in a small town in Canada, the author also addresses questions of identity and parentage in a light way. Many surprises occur as the mayor tries to keep...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41500749">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Toews always manages to create characters with whom it is easy to empathize.<br/>Nothing overly serious here, just a nice little story about<br/>a small town, a mayor with an obsessive personality, and everyday people<br/>struggling to deal with relationships, life, death, and a dog who is his ow...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63329731">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[ read her other books- much much better than this.<br/><br/>Ms Toews can capture the quirky small town character very well.....<br/>but the rest is just kind of blah.<br/><br/>thats it....just kind of blah.<br/><br/>and it didn't make me miss Manitoba at all - or any of the mennonite boys tha...]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[From the award-winning author of A Complicated Kindness comes a delightfully funny and charming novel about growing up, getting old, and falling in love in a small town <p> Life in Winnipeg didn't go as planned for Knute Corea-McCloud and her daughter, Summer Feelin'. But moving back in with her parents in Algren, Manitoba, and working for the longtime mayor, Hosea Funk, has its own challenges: Knute finds herself mixed up with Hosea's attempts to achieve his dream of meeting the Prime Minister-even if that means keeping the town's population at an even 1500. It's not an easy task, with citizens threatening to leave, Summer Feelin's father threatening to move back, Hosea's lady friend looking to move in, and one Algrenian on the verge of giving birth-to twins or possibly triplets. Hosea's search for his own roots takes us back to Algren's days as an outpost prairie town, when his mother, Euphemia, was seduced by a mysterious cowboy. Discovering the true identity of that cowboy fuels Hosea's many obsessions and just might reveal whether he is, indeed, a boy of good breeding. <p> Miriam Toews's inimitable humor and her largerthan- life characters bring small-town Canada to life. <em>A Boy of Good Breeding</em> is a big-hearted, hilarious novel about finding out where you belong.</p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[  A strange book about the mayor of a small town who is obsessed with the town remaining as Canada's smallest town at a population of 1500 so that the Prime Minister (who he suspects is his father) will visit on Canada Day.  I enjoyed the characters but wasn't blown away by the book.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this story.  It was set in a small town in Canada- but reminded me of the small towns I lived in in Oklahoma.  It was the kind of book that captures how bizarre people are in their ordinariness.  It was a sweet story, well written and creative.  I really liked it.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[While not as good as a Complicated Kindness. I found myself really enjoying this book. I ended up sharing the whole plot and reading passages out to Matthew before going to bed at night. It's a quick and fun read. ]]></body>
    
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