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Fight Night A Novel Miriam Toews by Miriam Toews 9781635578171, 9781635578188, 1635578175, 1635578183 instant download after payment.
A funny, smart, headlong rush of a novel full of wit, flawless writing, & a tribute to perseverance & love in an unusual family.
Fight Night is told in the unforgettable voice of Swiv, a 9-year-old living in Toronto with her pregnant mother, who is raising Swiv while caring for her own elderly, frail, yet extraordinarily lively mother. When Swiv is expelled from school, Grandma takes on the role of teacher & gives her the task of writing to Swiv's absent father about life in the household during the last trimester of the pregnancy. In turn, Swiv gives Grandma an assignment: to write a letter to "Gord," her unborn grandchild (and Swiv's soon-to-be brother or sister). "You’re a small thing," Grandma writes to Gord, "and you must learn to fight." As Swiv records her thoughts & observations, Fight Night unspools the pain, love, laughter, & above all, will to live a good life across three generations of women in a close-knit family. But it is Swiv’s exasperating, wise & irrepressible Grandma who is at the heart of this novel: someone who knows intimately what it costs to survive in this world, yet has found a way—painfully, joyously, ferociously—to love & fight to the end, on her own terms.
Miriam Toews is the author of 7 previous, bestselling novels: Women Talking, All My Puny Sorrows, The Flying Troutmans, Irma Voth, A Complicated Kindness, A Boy of Good Breeding, & Summer of My Amazing Luck, & one work of non-fiction, Swing Low: A Life. Her books have been widely published internationally, & adapted for stage & film. Among other honours, she is the winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year, the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, & the Writers’ Trust Marian Engel/Timothy Findley Award. She lives in Toronto.
