Book Review #6

Book #6 is by one of my favorite authors. I read Miriam Toew's book "A Complicated Kindess" a couple years ago when I was on vacation with my family and I couldn't put it down. I had the same experience with book #6 which is The Flying Troutmans. 

This book follows Hattie Troutman, who is the sister of Min Troutman. Min is a troubled woman with 2 kids; a daughter Thebes and a son Logan. While Hattie is living in Paris with her boyfriend, she gets a distress call from Thebes as Min is being admitted into the psychiatric ward. Hattie returns to her hometown to be with the kids, and decides to take the kids on a "road trip" of sorts to find their father, Cherkis. It's definitely not your typical "family bonding" story, because I'm not even sure that's what happens to the three of them. However, they have quite the adventure, and as dark as the story is, Toews manages to throw in a bit of humor every now and then. It's a book I would highly recommend. 

Miriam Toews touches me in a way I can't really describe. It's difficult for me to describe her writing as dark because the stories she tells are so bizarre and absurd they're hard to believe. And yet, as crazy the tales are, she writes them in a way that makes them slightly believable. If you read The Flying Troutmans and enjoy it, I would highly recommend A Complicated Kindness as well. It's quite a bit different and that story is definitely dark, but it's got that same Miriam Toews touch to it that makes it hard to put down. 



Happy reading!