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A review by bartvanovermeire
A Boy of Good Breeding by Miriam Toews
5.0
Who would have thought? Such a lighthearted, breezy Miriam Toews book. But also this she pulls off magnificently, the perfect book to read at this moment in time.
Hosea Funk is the mayor of Algren, population 1,500 and in the running for the prize of Canada's smallest town. But babies are being born and people are returning, heck, even his girlfriend wants to move in with him. And it's crucial that he keeps the population down, so they win the Prize and the accounting visit by the prime minister. Delightfully sweet, second book this year with tears at the end, second Miriam Toews.
"I like my stories happy, the sadness comes creeping out of the cracks in the story like blood, happy stories are the saddest."
Hosea Funk is the mayor of Algren, population 1,500 and in the running for the prize of Canada's smallest town. But babies are being born and people are returning, heck, even his girlfriend wants to move in with him. And it's crucial that he keeps the population down, so they win the Prize and the accounting visit by the prime minister. Delightfully sweet, second book this year with tears at the end, second Miriam Toews.
"I like my stories happy, the sadness comes creeping out of the cracks in the story like blood, happy stories are the saddest."