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After a sudden, devastating loss, Mara flees her family and ends up adrift in a wealthy seaside town. Mired in her grief, Mara detaches from the outside world and spends her days of self-imposed exile scrounging for food and swimming in the ocean at night. As her money runs out and the tourist season comes to a close, Mara finds a job at the local wine store. There, she meets Simon, the shop’s soft-spoken owner, a man whose loneliness she immediately recognizes as a mirror to her own.

In this completely captivating book, Miriam Toews has created some of the most engaging characters in Canadian literature: Hattie, Logan and Thebes are bewildered, hopeful, angry, and most of all, absolutely alive. Full of richly skewed, richly funny detail, The Flying Troutmans is a uniquely...