The Flying Troutmans

De: Miriam Toews

Narrado por: Kate Handford

Meet the Troutmans. Hattie is living in Paris, city of romance, but has just been dumped by her boyfriend. Min, her sister back in Canada, is going through a particularly dark period. And Min's two kids, Logan and Thebes, are not talking and talking way too much, respectively. When Hattie receives a phone call from eleven-year-old Thebes, begging her to return to Canada, she arrives home to find Min on her way to a psychiatric ward, and becomes responsible for her niece and nephew. Realizing that she is way out of her league, Hattie hatches a plan to find the kids' long-lost father. With only the most tenuous lead to go on, she piles Logan and Thebes into the family van, and they head south….

“A grittily sparkling cocktail.”—Spectator

“A colourful portrait of a family trying to survive in its own unique way.”—Observer

“In this chaotic world the only stability comes from our love for one another, quirks and all. In Toews's hands, that can be funny or heartbreaking, usually at the same time.”—Washington Post

©2008 Miriam Toews (P)2008 W. F. Howes Ltd

Gentle, sensitive, bright sometimes, touching

It just feels like a good friend is talking to you in a very special way something she went through, it’s not a book in which you want to mark certain phrases and keep them forever but the way depression is portrayed is very authentic and the language is unique