![]() The Bookclub-in-a-Box guide will inspire the reader to ask new questions about faith, transgression, forgiveness, and redemption. * How the characters struggle with and against the boundaries of their fixed and demanding cultural environment. * The relevance of the book’s title as Nomi measures everything in her life as either complicated or uncomplicated. ![]() * How the novel’s tone and mood is set by Nomi’s cutting sarcasm, and why the author has chosen to tell this sad story with humor. * Why this novel, with its teenage narrator, successfully crosses the line from teen into adult fiction. With Bookclub-in-a-Box, the reader will consider the following: Bookclub-in-a-Box guides the reader into this little known world with notes on the history and philosophy of the Mennonite faith, interesting facts about the author, and an in-depth look at the novel's themes and the sole narrator, sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel. In her award-winning novel, A Complicated Kindness, Miriam Toews describes a community where individual skills and emotions are held in strict check by the Mennonite leadership of the town. ![]()
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