Voss : How I came to America and am hero, mostly, by David Ives

This is funny, light reading - an extended Saturday Night Live skit kind of book that lampoons American culture. Vospop Vsklzwczdztwczky comes to America and gets in dip dip trobble.................

A complicated kindness, by Miriam Toews

This book sounded interesting because it is set in a Mennonite community in Canada and I was interested in gaining insight into what that life is like. BUT, the characters are so seriously disturbed that I ended up disappointed. The downward spiral of family disfunction, substance abuse, and most of all clinical depression just got to be too much for me and I didn't finish the book, which almost never happens.