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A single mom returns to her hometown in Manitoba and gets tangled up in the mayor’s scheme to meet the Canadian Prime Minister . . .
A big-hearted, hilarious novel of small-town Canada and its larger-than-life characters—including one stubborn, stray dog—from the author of Women Talking
Life in Winnipeg didn’t go as planned for Knute McCloud and her daughter. She’s moved back to Algren to help her mom look after her dad after his heart attack, and gets a job working for the longtime mayor and her dad’s best friend, Hosea Funk. Knute finds herself mixed up with Hosea’s attempts to achieve his dream of meeting the Prime Minister, who Hosea believes is his long-lost father after a secret deathbed confession from his mother.
In order to be designated Canada’s smallest town and get an official visit from that very same Prime Minister, they have to keep the town’s population to 1,500—no more, no less. Problem is, people keep coming and going, having triplets, or getting married, or dying. Hosea’s longtime girlfriend wants to move in, and then Knute’s ex shows up—it’s causing no end of trouble.
A delightfully quirky novel about the eccentricities of small-town life, and finally finding out where you truly belong.
A big-hearted, hilarious novel of small-town Canada and its larger-than-life characters—including one stubborn, stray dog—from the author of Women Talking
Life in Winnipeg didn’t go as planned for Knute McCloud and her daughter. She’s moved back to Algren to help her mom look after her dad after his heart attack, and gets a job working for the longtime mayor and her dad’s best friend, Hosea Funk. Knute finds herself mixed up with Hosea’s attempts to achieve his dream of meeting the Prime Minister, who Hosea believes is his long-lost father after a secret deathbed confession from his mother.
In order to be designated Canada’s smallest town and get an official visit from that very same Prime Minister, they have to keep the town’s population to 1,500—no more, no less. Problem is, people keep coming and going, having triplets, or getting married, or dying. Hosea’s longtime girlfriend wants to move in, and then Knute’s ex shows up—it’s causing no end of trouble.
A delightfully quirky novel about the eccentricities of small-town life, and finally finding out where you truly belong.
About the author
Miriam Toews was born and raised in Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada, the second daughter of Mennonite parents and a direct descendant of one of Steinbach's first settlers, Klaas R. Reimer, who arrived in Manitoba in 1874 from Ukraine. Her best-selling novels, which include Fight Night, Women Talking, All My Puny Sorrows, and A Complicated Kindness, have won numerous literary awards: the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award, and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
She is also a three-time finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Toews had a leading role in the feature film, Silent Light, written and directed by Carlos Reygadas, and winner of the 2007 Cannes Jury Prize, an experience that informed her fifth novel, Irma Voth.
She is also a three-time finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Toews had a leading role in the feature film, Silent Light, written and directed by Carlos Reygadas, and winner of the 2007 Cannes Jury Prize, an experience that informed her fifth novel, Irma Voth.
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