Fight night
Toews, Miriam, 1964-2023
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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. 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's 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.
Main title:
Fight night / Miriam Toews.
Author:
Toews, Miriam, 1964-, author
Imprint:
London : Faber, 2023.
Collation:
251 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2021.
ISBN:
9780571370733 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2608215