Complicated Kindness Booker Prize (1990) We are the only species

We are the only species in history that has single-handedly changed the entire planet

A history that is equally entertaining and enlightening

Fat Seeker

he files bogus reports based on Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs

it's the most practical

Complicated Kindness Booker Prize (1990) We are the only speciesIn this stunning coming of age novel, award winner Miriam Toews balances grief and hope in the voice of a witty, beleaguered teenager whose family is shattered by fundamentalist Christianity"Half of our family, the better looking half, is missing," Nomi Nickel tells us at the beginning of A Complicated Kindness . Left alone with her sad, peculiar father, her days are spent piecing together why her mother and sister have disappeared and contemplating