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    <body><![CDATA[Who wouldn't want to go on a road trip with Miriam Toews? <br/>This is another top notch delight in an increasingly brilliant career. The best thing about MT's writing is that it manages to be both cool and heartbreakingly sweet. The dialogue is the best thing out of Canada since the movie &quot;Hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25516528">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If, along the way, something is gained, then something will also be lost. Those words were emblazoned on Min's bedroom wall, burned into the wallpaer with a charred wine-bottle cork. Our parents dismissed them as psuedo-profound, angsty-adolescent babble, but they haunted me. Why should that be? I w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27899422">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the second book I've read by Miriam Toews, the first being  <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13374.A_Complicated_Kindness" title="A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews">A Complicated Kindness</a>. She is a joy to read. Unlike anyone else that I've found. Funny, sad, idiosyncratic, touching, original. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45639556">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I discovered this book at my favorite bookstore, The Reading Reptile in Kansas City.  It's a children's bookstore.  So, I really pay attention to the adult books they choose.  This was beautifully, sensitively written.  In all, the story has been told before.  It was about the effect of mental illne...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39796773">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've found a new favorite writer, methinks. This is one of a string of books that all but destroyed my own will to write. But in a good way.<br/><br/>This book is hilarious but also hits you where it counts. Here's a little taste, after the narrator Hattie has been picked up from the airport by he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76318016">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a novel!!!! You'll laugh yourself to death reading this one! It's funny, fast-paced, ascerbic, witty, and a hit-a-nail-on-the-head writing that captures the true essence of youthful language. As a parent, reading along and listening to Thebes talk, you'll want to shout out: 'PLEASE!!!! STOP TAL...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75301097">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a road trip book, in which you're trapped in a beat up Ford Aerostar with the Troutman family as they careen across the United States, searching for a long lost father, and a plan. <br/><br/>I loved riding in the car with these characters. They are funny, and fun. The teenage Troutman, his...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53059064">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book, with a mentally ill person as the catalyst, exhibits schizoid traits of its own.  My initial reaction: unconvincing and lazy.  I didn’t think I’d say this about Toews, winner of the 2004 Governor General’s award for <em>A Complicated Kindness</em>.  <em>The Flying Troutmans</em> is my first Toews nov...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48261325">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hilarious. Yes, I actually laughed out loud. This story is filled with nutty characters with the right amount of zany to fill me with giggles. Sorry, to those in the plane next to me.<br/><br/>Hattie comes home from Paris after her 11-year-old niece calls, asking for help. Hattie’s older sister ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69676365">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews is the first of her novels that I've read. Her writing style is different from anything I've read before and the story is a bit odd as are the characters.<br/><br/><br/>The narrator of this story is 28 year old Hattie. She has come home from Paris after a brea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38862981">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The Flying Troutmans&quot; is gritless but not altogether witless. Borrowing an awful lot from &quot;Little Miss Sunshine,&quot; it's a novel about a misfit family on a road trip that heals all their wounds. Hattie, has to come home from Paris to rescue her nephew and niece, 10 year old Thebes...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76470425">more...</a>]]></body>
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