Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones and A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews are both novels focused on young girls going though traumatic situations. Matilda from Mister Pip is a young girl living on an island plaugued by a civil war. Matilda is a smart young woman whose imagination was stunted due to the conflict that surrounded her. These conflicts began a short list of trauma-induced mental illnesses which stunted her mental growth and changed her identity. Nomi from Miriam Toews book A Complicated Kindness, has multiple people leave her life and betray her trust. The novel progresses and by the end of the book we have a much different girl than when the book started. Nomi’s abandonment issues cause her to find stability within herself; unfortunately
