By Miriam
Toews
“Half
of our family, the better-looking half, is missing,” Nomi
tells us at the beginning of A Complicated
Kindness.
Left alone with her peculiar father, her days are
spent piecing together why her mother and sister
have disappeared and contemplating her inevitable
career at Happy Family Farms, a chicken slaughterhouse
on the outskirts of East Village-a dull, oppressive
town founded by Mennonites on the cold, flat plains
of Manitoba, Canada.
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