Fight Night - 'A Gem: humour and hope in the face of suffering' Observer (Hardcover, Main)

'I doubt I'll read a better novel.' Big Issue 'Go Grandma Elvira!' Margaret Atwood 'Wickedly funny and fearlessly honest.' The New Yorker 'Glorious.' Sarah Moss 'A love letter to our brave and brilliant matriarchs.' Glamour 'Miriam Toews is a genius.' R. O. Kwon 'As compelling and hilarious and indecently sad as life can be.' Financial Times ____________ You are a small thing, and you must learn to fight. Swiv has taken her grandmother's advice too literally. Now she's at home, suspended from school. Mom is pregnant and preoccupied - and so Swiv is in the older woman's charge, receiving a very different form of education from a teacher with a style all her own. Grandma likes her stories fast, troublesome and funny. She's known the very worst that life can throw at you - and has met it every time with a wild, unnamable spirit, fighting for joy and independence every step of the way. But will maths lessons based on Amish jigsaws and classes on How to Dig a Winter Grave inspire the same fire in Swiv, and ensure it never goes out? Time is running short. Grandma's health is failing, the baby is on the way, as a family of three extraordinary women prepare to face life's great changes together. Poignant, hilarious and deeply moving, Fight Night is a girl's love letter to the women raising her and a tribute to one family's fighting spirit.

General

Imprint:	Faber and Faber
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2022
Authors:	Miriam Toews
Dimensions:	216 x 135 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	272
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-0-571-37071-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-571-37071-3
Barcode:	9780571370719

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