Complicated Kindness Condition:Very Good reveals the phony pretensions of

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Henry James's foreword to the collection on its publication in 1916 is included here as an afterword

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Complicated Kindness Condition:Very Good reveals the phony pretensions ofIn this stunning coming of age novel, award winner Miriam Toews balances grief and hope in the voice of a witty, beleaguered teenager whose family is shattered by fundamentalist Christianity"Half of our family, the better looking half, is missing," Nomi Nickel tells us at the beginning of A Complicated Kindness . Left alone with her sad, peculiar father, her days are spent piecing together why her mother and sister have disappeared and contemplating