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The Flying Troutmans
Contributor(s): Toews, Miriam (Author)
ISBN: 1640091467     ISBN-13: 9781640091467
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
OUR PRICE:   $15.26  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: February 2019
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Temporarily out of stock - Will ship within 2 to 5 weeks
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Women
- Fiction | Coming Of Age
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2018030245
Physical Information: 1" H x 5" W x 8" (0.55 lbs) 288 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age
- Demographic Orientation - Rural
- Demographic Orientation - Small Town
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
This saga of bad luck and good company is a wry, scary, heartfelt ode to the traverses we have to make in life when we're at the end of our rope and there's no net below us. --ELLE


When Hattie's moody boyfriend dumps her in Paris, she returns home to find that her sister Min is in the psych ward again. Freaked out by the prospect of becoming a surrogate mother to Min's kids, Logan and Thebes, Hattie decides to take them in the family van to find their father, last heard to be running an idiosyncratic art gallery in South Dakota. What ensues is a remarkable journey across America, as aunt and kids--through chaos as diverse as their personalities--discover one another to be both far crazier and far more normal than any of them thought.


Contributor Bio(s): Toews, Miriam: - MIRIAM TOEWS is the author of seven novels: All My Puny Sorrows, Summer of My Amazing Luck, A Boy of Good Breeding, A Complicated Kindness, The Flying Troutmans, Irma Voth, and Women Talking, and one work of nonfiction, Swing Low: A Life. She is a winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and the Writers Trust Marian Engel/Timothy Findley Award. She lives in Toronto.