Sixteen-year-old Nomi struggles not to give in to despair when her mother and sister flee their home in East Village, a Mennonite community in Manitoba, leaving her in the care of her increasingly depressed father.
year: 2005, 2004
call number/section: 1000
subjects: problem families, fiction, maternal deprivation, father-daughter relationship, teenage girls, mennonites, fathers and daughters
Editions
Toews, Miriam
Counterpoint (2005)
Nomi Nickel explores her options in the Mennonite community her mother and sister have recently fled and rebels as her father withdraws.
Schools: 0
Toews, Miriam
Counterpoint (2004)
Sixteen-year-old Nomi struggles not to give in to despair when her mother and sister flee their home in East Village, a Mennonite community in Manitoba, leaving her in the care of her increasingly depressed father.
Schools: 1