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Miriam Toews (born 1964 in Steinbach, Manitoba) is a Canadian novelist and humorist of Mennonite descent.

She exposed at a University of Manitoba and the University of King's College, and has also worked as a freelance newspaper and radio journalist. Her 2004 novel A Complicated Kindness was her breakthrough operate, spending concluded a year on a American best seller lists & winning the Governor General's Award for English Fiction. the novel, astir a adolescent girl world health organization longs to escape her little Mennonite town & hang out by using Lou Reed in New York City, was also nominative for the Giller Prize.

Bibliography

Summer of The Amazing Luck (1996) The Son of Expert Breeding (1998) Swing Great: The Life (2000, non-fiction) The Complicated Kindness (2004)

Like gossip, 'Breeding' is light
Review of 'A Boy of Good Breeding'.






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