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The Flying Troutmans
From the author of Women Talking--now an Academy Award-winning film starring Claire Foy, Rooney Mara, Frances McDormand, and Jessie Buckley
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Catapult
- Publish Date: Feb 12nd, 2019
- Pages: 288
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.00in - 1.00in - 0.55lb
- EAN: 9781640091467
- Categories: • Literary• Women• Coming of Age
About the Author
More books by Miriam Toews
What people are saying
Very fond of books. Myriad things @LRB disclaimer etc, unpaid PA @bealelab. Also edits, parents, sings. Incapable of leaving house with fewer than 5 vols.
@relatively_pod @NotRollergirl Miriam Toews is just excellent at siblings generally, The Flying Troutmans is another classic (think Little Miss Sunshine). Meg Wolitzer also writes good siblings. The sisters in Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle (names entirely escape me at present & I am too tired to Google).
Praise for this book
"A lovably nutty cast." --Publishers Weekly
"Not since Stephen Leacock have our neighbors to the north given us a writer as witty and wise as Miriam Toews . . . She is out to entertain with words, and the tale of the flying Troutmans is her best entertainment yet." --Los Angeles Times
"Toews excels here at comedic sophistication, all while masterfully embedding explorations of madness, truth, and the immense sorrow that comes from caring for someone who is derailed by mania's devious tug." --Booklist
"Miriam Toews saunters along the line between comedy and grief as if she might lose her balance at any moment. But she never does. The precarious tone of her novels about fractured families is the crafted effect of a nimble writer . . . Toews is a genius at recording the everyday weirdness of young people, their capricious vacillation between screw-you sarcasm and tender pleading for affirmation." --Washington Post
"Engaging, humorous, grim, and redemptive, this is essential reading." --Library Journal
What people are saying
Very fond of books. Myriad things @LRB disclaimer etc, unpaid PA @bealelab. Also edits, parents, sings. Incapable of leaving house with fewer than 5 vols.
@relatively_pod @NotRollergirl Miriam Toews is just excellent at siblings generally, The Flying Troutmans is another classic (think Little Miss Sunshine). Meg Wolitzer also writes good siblings. The sisters in Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle (names entirely escape me at present & I am too tired to Google).