![]() ![]() Rather than face life as an outcast and force Ray to choose between love and his faith, Trudie left. Quiring, whom she had and ended an affair with this led to her excommunication from the church by her brother, Hans “The Mouth” Rosenfeldt, a domineering man who lords his power over the town. ![]() ![]() ![]() Trudie’s departure was more unexpected: she was being blackmailed by the English teacher Mr. It is revealed throughout the novel that Tash left with her boyfriend, Ian, after admitting that she was an atheist who couldn’t bear to stay in the deeply conservative town. The departure of Tash and Trudie was a shattering event for the family, though, and it has left Ray and Nomi reeling, even three years later. She expects that after graduation, she will go to work at the chicken processing plant, a future that is a far cry from the life she wants: living in the other East Village in New York City and hanging out with Lou Reed. Nomi lives with her devout, stoic father Ray, to whom she is fiercely loyal after the sudden departures of her sister Tash and her mother Trudie several weeks apart when Nomi was 13. The novel takes place in the late 1960s and traces the final days before the high school graduation of Nomi Nickel, a 16-year-old from East Village, Manitoba. ![]()
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