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Miriam Toews
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A good read is one that keeps you up at night even though you know you're going to regret it the next day. It's also a book that makes you laugh out loud and weep at the same time. The Flying Troutmans does all of this, and more. It's a hoot, and it will leave a warm, endearing hum in your heart as well.
Hattie arrives home to find her sister suicidal, and her niece and nephew bouncing off the walls. Eleven-year-old Thebe has bright purple hair, body tattoos and doesn't bathe, and 15-year-old Logan hides under his gray sweatshirt hood with the volume turned up high on his earphones. All Hattie knows is that she has to take care of her family.
She instinctively hops in a van to make a 2000-mile road trip to California from Canada in search of the kids' possibly non-existent lost father. This is the chronicle of that journey—and it is a rollicking, remarkable ride.
The author has an uncanny ability to get inside the mind of quirky adolescents, so these young people come vividly to life in hilarious and heartbreaking ways. The ridiculous conversations on the trip are guaranteed to entertain, and the love that shines through all the challenges—breakdowns, sleazy motels, bizarre people, heartache, and joy—will leave you feeling that despite insurmountable odds, life is holding us all in a great field of hope and redemption.
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(Ages: Adult)
#15437 - Paperback Book - 275 pgs
Our price $14.95
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