1. Powells.com Interviews - Miriam Toews Miriam Toews Breaks Out Nomi Nickel s family is falling apart. First, big sister Tash fled their Mennonite village. Soon after, Mom followed. http://www.powells.com/authors/toews.html

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2. A Complicated Kindness By Miriam Toews Miriam Toews darkly funny novel, A Complicated Kindness, is the world according to Nomi Nickel, a bewildered and wry sixteenyear-old trapped in a town http://contemporarylit.about.com/od/fiction/fr/kindness.htm

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3. Miriam Toews - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Miriam Toews (pronounced tâves), (born 1964 in Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada) is a Canadian writer of Mennonite descent. She grew up in Steinbach, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Toews

Miriam Toews From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Miriam Toews (pronounced t¢ves), (born 1964 in Steinbach Manitoba Canada ) is a Canadian writer of Mennonite descent. She grew up in Steinbach, Manitoba and has lived in Montreal and London , before settling in Winnipeg , Manitoba. Toews studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of King's College in Halifax , and has also worked as a freelance newspaper and radio journalist. Her non-fiction book "Swing Low: A Life" was a memoir of her father, a victim of lifelong depression . Her 2004 novel A Complicated Kindness was her breakthrough work, spending over a year on the Canadian bestseller lists and winning the Governor General's Award for English Fiction. The novel, about a teenage girl who longs to escape her small Russian Mennonite town and hang out with Lou Reed in the slums of New York City , was also nominated for the Giller Prize and was the winning title in the 2006 edition of Canada Reads A series of letters she wrote in 2000 to the father of her son were published on the website www.openletters.net and were profiled on the radio show This American Life in an episode about missing parents.

4. RandomHouse.ca | Author Spotlight: Miriam Toews Miriam Toews (pronounced tâves) was born in 1964 in the small Mennonite town of Steinbach, Manitoba. She left Steinbach at eighteen, living in Montreal and http://www.randomhouse.ca/author/results.pperl?authorid=55356

5. NPR: Novelist Miriam Toews Miriam Toews has written her third book, A Complicated Kindness. One reviewer called it a kind of Catcher in the Rye for Mennonite girls. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4265055

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7. Review | A Complicated Kindness By Miriam Toews Miriam Toews has impressed critics and readers with every one of her outings. Two previous novels Summer of My Amazing Luck and A Boy of Good Breeding http://januarymagazine.com/fiction/ack.html

A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews Published by Knopf Canada 246 pages, 2004 Buy it online Following Menno Home Reviewed by Linda L. Richards Coming of age stories are powerful fodder for novelists. So powerful, in fact, that one grows weary of seeing them. And it was only after battling this weariness (" Another one of those...") that I started reading A Complicated Kindness. It was a battle worth fighting. A Complicated Kindness reminds the reader why the coming of age story is so often trotted out. In the hands of an author more concerned with the telling of her tale than the smell of her own catharsis, this oeuvre can really hum. Miriam Toews has impressed critics and readers with every one of her outings. Two previous novels Summer of My Amazing Luck and A Boy of Good Breeding as well as a single work of book-length non-fiction Swing Low: A Life were all greeted with raves and showered with awards. Collectively Toews' works have won the John Hirsch award, the McNally Robinson Book of the Year award and the Alexander Kennedy Ibister award for non-fiction. Not hugely visible awards, not blazingly well-known critics, but notice, nonetheless. Almost all of it positive. All of Toews' books have been good and worthy of note. But

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10. Welcome To The Miriam Toews Profile miriam toews was born in Steinbach, Manitoba, in 1964 and currently lives in Winnipeg. miriam has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Manitoba http://www.mbwriter.mb.ca/mapindex/t_profiles/toews_m.html

Search the M.A.P. Index AUTHOR : Toews, Miriam BIOGRAPHY Miriam Toews was born in Steinbach, Manitoba, in 1964 and currently lives in Winnipeg. Miriam has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Manitoba and a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of King's College. Aside from her personal writing, she has worked as a freelance journalist. She writes both fiction and non-fiction in the genres of novel, memoir, magazine, newspaper and radio. AWARDS Winner, Governor General's Award for Fiction, A Complicated Kindness Winner, Canadian Booksellers Association Fiction Book of the Year, A Complicated Kindness Winner, McNally Robinson Book of the Year, A Complicated Kindness Winner, Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, A Complicated Kindness Shortlisted, Giller Prize, A Complicated Kindness Winner, Gold Medal for Humour, National Magazine Award, 1999. Winner, Boy of Good Breeding , McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, 1998. Shortlisted

11. Miriam Toews (1964–) Biography - Personal, Addresses, Career, Honors Awards Canadian novelist and journalist miriam toews is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Summer of My Amazing Luck, A Boy of Good Breeding, http://biography.jrank.org/pages/1964/Toews-Miriam-1964.html

Other Free Encyclopedias Brief Biographies Famous Authors Vol 18 Miriam Toews (1964–) Biography - Personal, Addresses, Career, Honors Awards, Writings, Adaptations, Sidelights Find all books written by Miriam Toews on Amazon.com Education: Religion: Mennonite. Addresses Agent Career Writer and journalist. Honors Awards John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer, Stephen Leacock Award for Humour shortlist, and McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award shortlist, all 1996, all for Summer of My Amazing Luck; McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, 1998, for Boy of Good Breeding; National Magazine Award Gold Medal for Humour, 1999; McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, and Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Nonfiction, both 2000, both for Swing Low; A Complicated Kindness Writings Summer of My Amazing Luck , Turnstone Press (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada), 1996. A Boy of Good Breeding , Stoddart (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1998, Arcade (New York, NY), 2001. Swing Low: A Life (memoir), Stoddart (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 2000. A Complicated Kindness , Counterpoint (New York, NY), 2004.

12. Ephphatha: Miriam Toews And Luck miriam toews and Luck. For a summer read i grabbed toews lesser known but also excellent novel Summer of My Amazing Luck. I really enjoyed it. http://jameswheeler.blogspot.com/2006/09/miriam-toews-and-luck.html

skip to main skip to sidebar Ephphatha ...Ephphatha is a greek word, a root word for epiphany, and thus for understanding, the "aha" moment and the possibility of a new vision of the world... Tuesday, September 05, 2006 Miriam Toews and Luck For a summer read i grabbed Toews lesser known but also excellent novel "Summer of My Amazing Luck." I really enjoyed it. Mostly, because i really connected with Toews wry sense of humor and her ability to find the ironic in daily living. Toews is an interesting writer. Probably representative of lots of writers who try to make sense out of the world they were taught to believe in and the world they now experience. It is interesting that as kids we are often taught by parents, siblings and others how life "works." But then we have moments in our adult life where our preconceived interpretations of reality are thrown for a loop. These loops generally lead to a nauseous and sickly experience. This disonance between what has been inherited through tradition and family and the truth of present experience provides interesting questions. I like it when writers like Toews have the courage to work through this process through fictional literature. Through this kind of writing i think that the writer allows the reader to explore their own experiences too. For example we can explore why the world was presented to us the way it was when we were children. Was it that people outright lied to us when we were kids (for dishonest or malicious reasons)? Was the world presented to us in a certain way to protect us from a painful reality? Or is there a different kind of perception of "the way things are" for kids and adults? Maybe someone (Mom or Dad, a loved uncle or a crazy grandparent) tried to be honest with us but we just did not have the emotional or mental capacity to understand what they were trying to communicate?

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14. PopMatters A Complicated Kindness by miriam toews, review by Lisa Nuch Venbrux Beginning this book was like engaging in conversation with a Born Again prolifer at http://www.popmatters.com/books/reviews/c/complicated-kindness.shtml

@import url( http://www.popmatters.com/stylesubpage.css ); Features Columns Blogs News ... Media Center A COMPLICATED KINDNESS by Miriam Toews Counterpoint Press October 2004, 246 pages, $24 by Lisa Nuch Venbrux e-mail this article print this article comment on this article Fumbling Towards Empathy On my first day of work at Indian Echo Caverns in the Pennsylvania countryside, I was trained by a Mennonite tour guide in a tight bun and Easy Spirits. She was my age, 17, but I guessed she was much older. Is she allowed to work here ? I thought, then scolded myself for it. When I got to know her, she acted like any one of us, with fewer swear words and comfortable shoes. I had heard stories about Mennonite kids selling crack, and at once I began to believe it. They were as angst-ridden as the rest of us, which earned them respect in my narcissistic adolescent brain. I tried to read Miriam Toews' heartfelt A Complicated Kindness with that teenage epiphany in mind. Nomi Nickel is a Mennonite girl growing up in a small god-fearing Canadian community called East Village. Ironically, Nomi's dream is to live in New York's East Village, the antithesis of her closed world. She grapples with a dysfunctional family, sex, drugs, and school; all against the backdrop of the unforgiving religious community she cannot escape. We are introduced to Nomi's extraordinary life through ordinary means casual descriptions of daily and family life that reverberate powerfully thanks to Toews' perfectly calibrated tone. Set against the frigid Canadian countryside, the town seems chillier thanks to descriptions of the local business a chicken farm where the slaughtered birds hang like a nightmare over the young people destined to inherit a job at the chopping block.

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16. CBC.ca Arts - Miriam Toews Wins Two New Literary Honours Manitoba writer miriam toews has continued her winning streak, picking up two more awards for her novel A Complicated Kindness. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2005/04/25/toewsmanwriters050425.html

News Sports Entertainment Radio ... My Region Story Tools: E-MAIL PRINT S M ... SEND YOUR FEEDBACK Miriam Toews wins two new literary honours CBC Arts Manitoba writer Miriam Toews has continued her winning streak, picking up two more awards for her novel A Complicated Kindness The best-selling book won the $5,000 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award and the $3,500 Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction at the Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards gala Saturday evening. Toews's book, which tells the tale of a teenage southern Manitoba girl whose mother and sister have disappeared, won the $15,000 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction in 2004 and was also shortlisted for the Giller Prize for Fiction. Author Miriam Toews The 40-year-old writer's win marks the third time she has accepted the book of the year prize in the 17-year history of the awards, which are organized by the Manitoba Writers' Guild. Other winners at the ceremony: Chandra Mayor won the $5,000 Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award for her debut novel Cherry Caelum Vatnsdal won the $2,000 John Hirsch Award for most promising Manitoba writer.

17. The Believer - Miriam Toews's A COMPLICATED KINDNESS miriam toews (pronounced Taves), the awardwinning Canadian author of three earlier books, embodies Nomi’s voice with such an authentic and manic charm that http://www.believermag.com/issues/200504/?read=review_toews

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19. The Spirit Of Things: 5 June  2005  - A Complicated Kindness Canadian writer miriam toews grew up in a small prairie town that was settled by the Mennonites a Christian sect known for their antimodern ways. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/relig/spirit/stories/s1380744.htm

The Ark Encounter For The God Who Sings The Philosopher's Zone ... The Religion Report Sunday at 6pm, repeated Monday at 9pm and Friday at 4am Presented by Rachael Kohn print A Complicated Kindness Sunday 5 June 2005 Summary Canadian writer Miriam Toews grew up in a small prairie town that was settled by the Mennonites, a Christian sect known for their anti-modern ways. Program Transcript Rachael Kohn: It’s normal to be a rebel when you’re young, but if you’ve grown up in a Christian sect, like the Mennonites in Canada, who are almost as strict as the Amish, even dancing can land you in trouble in the eyes of the church. Hello, I’m Rachael Kohn. Today’s Spirit of Things on ABC Radio National comes to you from the Sydney Writers’ Festival, where I met the award-winning Canadian author, Miriam Toews. She’s a Mennonite and a rebel, and she’s turned her youthful experience into a funny and poignant story called A Complicated Kindness , which has been compared to J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye APPLAUSE Miriam Toews: Thanks a lot.

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