A Boy of Good Breeding

Who else but the author Miriam Toews could place a story in the "smallest town in Canada" where nothing interesting could ever possibly happen, and make the story interesting. She conjers up a collection of idiosyncratic personalities loaded with foibles and obsessions, and then proceeds to make the......more

Miriam Toews is from Winnipeg, the great Canadian city that has given the world John K. Samson / The Weakerthans, and Marcel Dzama. Besides being from Winnipeg this book could be set in a Canadian cousin town to Donald Harington's Staymore; oh and she also writes in such an effortlessly feeling kind......more

Toews always manages to create characters with whom it is easy to empathize. Nothing overly serious here, just a nice little story about a small town, a mayor with an obsessive personality, and everyday people struggling to deal with relationships, life, death, and a dog who is his own man....errrr..........more

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I feel like I'm missing something with Miriam Toews - everyone is so very enthusiastic about her, but I just didn't feel this book. I laughed at some bits, and enjoyed some of the eccentric characters. but felt unsatisfied with the story overall. I'm at a bit of a loss as to why I found this book so......more