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The Flying Troutmans by Toews, Miriam is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Flying Troutmans about?

A novel that is at once hilarious and heartrending, The Flying Troutmans is about a family on the verge of spinning off its axles and a road trip that just may keep it together."Not since Stephen Leacock have our neighbours to the north given us a writer as witty and wise as Miriam Toews... She is out to entertain with words, and the tale of the flying Troutmans is her best entertainment yet." - The Los Angeles TimesWhen Hattie receives an SOS call in Paris from her eleven-year-old niece, the decision to return to Canada is slam-dunk easy, because she’s just been dumped by her boyfriend. But when she arrives back, her sister, Min, is on her way to the psychiatric ward, and Hattie is left to take care of Min’s children, Thebes and Logan. When she realizes that this may become a permanent arrangement, Hattie hatches a plan. Without much more than an old address to go on, the three of them set off on a wild road trip to find the kids’ long-lost father.“Miriam Toews saunters along the line between comedy and grief as if she might lose her balance at any moment. But she never does. The precarious tone of her novels about fractured families is the crafted effect of a nimble writer...

Who reads The Flying Troutmans?

Author

Toews, Miriam

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf Canada

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307397492

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary Fiction

Rating

3.69 / 5 (5,176 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13