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The Flying Troutmans (2008)

by Miriam Toews(Favorite Author)

4.11 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0307397491 (ISBN13: 9780307397492)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Knopf Canada

review 1: Miriam Towes writes with great heart and understanding. In this tale Hattie shows up to help look after her sisters children when Min is admitted to the psych ward. The kids have had a difficult time, trying to parent their mom. Their father left some years ago. Hattie has to deal with scared, abandon children and her own wish to get away from her sisters destructive illness. She decides to try to find their father and takes the kids on a long road trip from Canada to California. It's an intimate tale of how they learn to love each other and find some peace with each other. The road trip is written in lot of dialogue and is beautifully done.
review 2: How do I describe this book? Hilarious and dark. Well-paced, quirky, and relatable. Some passages in this ... morenovel are some of my favourite pieces of writing. I guess my problem with the book was that the balance between funny and tragic seemed off. For every laugh, I was whipped by a string of painful flashback after painful flashback to the point where it seemed unrealistic. And what I like about this author is how strangely realistic the core of the story is. Still enjoyable, I'd recommend it. less

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