I laughed out loud numerous times as I sailed through this book, which is so compellingly easy to gobble up in one gulp. Somehow, Toews manages to make unbelievably snappy dialogue come out of the mouths of utterly believable and attractive, albeit damaged characters. As a complete reading experience, I think A Complicated Kindness was more cohesive and felt more finely crafted, but The Flying Troutmans is still a splendid book. (I was surprised that it was not longlisted for the Giller.)