Quotes from Gail Anderson-Dargatz

Housework would never be her crowning achievement, the life's work for which she'd be known.

She knew nothing about him, other than what he revealed of himself through his garden.

You hire our boys because they don't know how to ask for what they're worth. You treat them as if they were slaves.

You know how cats are. They'll heal themselves if you keep them locked up. In a couple of months his bones mended. But the fear didn't; it stayed in that cat's bones. He wasn't cocky no more. Now he jumps when I go by him with the wheelbarrow. Fear like that stays inside you forever if you don't find a way to get rid of it.

Fear like that stays inside you forever if you don't find a way to get rid of it.

A Complicated Kindness is just that: funny and strange, spellbinding and heartbreaking, this novel is a complicated kindness from a terrifically talented writer.