Michelle's review
A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
This book was pretty interesting--from the perspective of a teenage girl who seems pretty troubled (and she has a few good reasons)--or as one character says in the book, it's not the highlight of her life, or some such thing. It reminded me a little bit of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter in tone & with another teenage protagonist. This would be an interesting book for a book club, because the things that happen really are a complicated kindness. I wanted a little more resolution though and wanted to know where the hell everyone went, but so did the teenager--so maybe we end up knowing a little how she feels. Definitely an interesting read. It was one of those books that was interesting every time you picked it up, and then at some point, you had to keep reading to see how this turned out.
Those Mennonites can be pretty wild.
Those Mennonites can be pretty wild.
