Irma Voth

We're Mennonites. As far as I know, we are the most embarrassing sub-sect of people to belong to if you're a teenager. Sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel longs to hang out with Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull in New York City's East Village. Instead she's trapped in East Village, Manitoba: a town with no train station, no bar, and where job prospects consist of slaughtering chickens at the Happy Family Farms abattoir. Since her mother and sister have left home, Nomi lives with...

Lucy and her eight-month-old son live in a Winnipeg housing project filled with single mothers on the dole. Still dealing with her own mother's sudden death, and new to the ever-multiplying complications of life on welfare, Lucy strikes up a friendship with her neighbour, Lish. On the whole, they're pretty happy . . . But Lucy wants to make sure they stay happy. And she has a plan.Told with Toews's signature scalding wit and deep compassion, Summer of my Amazing Luck is a brilliantly funny book...

Hattie, living in Paris, has just been dumped by her boyfriend when she receives a phone call from her eleven-year-old niece, Thebes. Hattie's sister Min is having a particularly dark episode and Thebes asks Hattie to come and look after her and her brother Logan. When Hattie arrives back in Canada, and realises that she is out of her depth, she hatches a plan to find the children's long-lost father. With only the most tenuous lead, she piles Logan and Thebes into the family van and heads south....

Однажды вечером восемь меннонитских женщин собираются в сарае на секретную встречу. На протяжении двух лет к ним и еще сотне других девушек в их колонии по ночам являлись демоны, чтобы наказать за грехи. Но когда выясняется, что синяки, ссадины и следы насилия – дело рук не сатанинских сил, а живых мужчин из их же общины, женщины оказываются перед выбором: остаться жить в мире, за пределами которого им ничего не знакомо, или сбежать, чтобы спасти себя и своих дочерей?

Knute is a twenty-four-year-old single mother who returns home to Algren with her daughter to look after her father Tom, who has suffered a heart attack. Meanwhile, Hosea Funk, a friend of Tom's and the mayor of Algren has a lot on his mind. The prime minister has promised to pay a visit to whichever town in Canada has the smallest population. Algren has held this position for some time but recent baby booms and returning families, like Knute, threaten to tip Algren over the magic 1500  .

Бабушка Эльвира провела в борьбе всю жизнь. Сначала она упорно отстаивала свое право на счастье и независимость, но даже теперь, несмотря на почтенный возраст и хрупкое здоровье, ее борьба еще не окончена, ведь ее беременная дочь и маленькая внучка так в ней нуждаются. Когда девятилетнюю Суив отстраняют от школьных занятий, неподражаемая Эльвира с готовностью берется за обучение внучки. Она научит Суив считать, писать письма, читать рецепты лекарств, рыть могилы и разруливать конфликты с...