What’s a teenage rebel to do in a smug Mennonite community on the Canadian Prairies? If you’re 16-year-old Nomi Nickel, drive aim- lessly around the countryside with your pot-smoking boyfriend. Rage against fate and a runaway mother for des What’s a teenage rebel to do in a smug Mennonite community on the Canadian Prairies? If you’re 16-year-old Nomi Nickel, drive aim- lessly around the countryside with your pot-smoking boyfriend. Rage against fate and a runaway mother for deserting you in the wrong "East Village." And put off finishing that English assign-ment as long as your oddly attentive teacher will let you. Wise, edgy, and wickedly funny, Nomi has wooed thousands of readers with her bittersweet tale of teenage angst, Mennonite style, since A Complicated Kindness began climbing Canadian and U.S. bestseller lists in 2004. Popular film and television actor Cara Pifko brings the sardonic voice of Toews’s unforgettable heroine to life in this hilariously touching narration of the hit novel O Magazine calls "darkly funny and provocative" and the Globe and Mail has dubbed "Canada’s next classic." ...Continua Nascondi
