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I heard of this book while listening to an outline
of Family Systems Therapy by Paddy Ducklow.
'A Complicated Kindness' Miriam Toews
"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. Five
hundred years ago in Europe a man called Menno Simons set off to do his own
peculiar religious thing...Imagine the least well-adjusted kid in your school
starting a breakaway clique of people whose manifesto includes a ban on the
media, dancing, smoking, temperate climates, movies, drinking, rock'nroll,
having sex for fun, swimming, make-up, jewelry, playing pool, going to cities,
or staying up past nine o'clock. That was Menno all over. Thanks a lot, Menno."
(Taken from the dust jacket)
By the by, I am reading it
now.
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