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23%OFFMiriam Toews - Fight Night: ´A Gem: humour and hope in the face of suffering´ Observer - 9780571370726 - 9780571370726
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Fight Night: ´A Gem: humour and hope in the face of suffering´ Observer

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Description for Fight Night: ´A Gem: humour and hope in the face of suffering´ Observer Paperback.

FROM THE WRITER OF THE OSCAR-WININNG WOMEN TALKING
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR
LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD


'Go Grandma Elvira!' Margaret Atwood
'Wickedly funny and fearlessly honest.' The New Yorker
'Glorious.' Sarah Moss
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You are a small thing, and you must learn to fight.

Swiv has taken this advice too literally. Now she's suspended from school, in the care of her foul-mouthed, hilarious grandmother.

Mom is busy being pregnant, so Grandma gives Swiv a very different education. Swiv learns maths with Amish jigsaws and How to Dig a Winter Grave. Grandma's methods may be unorthodox, but she has faced the worst of life with a wild, independent spirit and this is what she hopes to pass on.

Time is running short. Grandma's health is failing and the baby is on the way - can Grandma inspire this fire in Swiv, and ensure it never goes out?

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.

'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

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571370726
SKU
9780571370726
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-2

About Miriam Toews
Miriam Toews is the author of six bestselling novels: Summer of My Amazing Luck, A Boy of Good Breeding, A Complicated Kindness, The Flying Troutmans, Irma Voth, and All My Puny Sorrows, and one work of non-fiction, Swing Low: A Life. She is a winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and the Writers Trust Marian Engel/ Timothy Findley Award. She lives in Toronto.

Reviews for Fight Night: ´A Gem: humour and hope in the face of suffering´ Observer
'Wickedly funny and fearlessly honest.' The New Yorker 'The last book that made me cry.' JOSHUA FERRIS 'A love letter to our brave and brilliant matriarchs.' Glamour

Goodreads reviews for Fight Night: ´A Gem: humour and hope in the face of suffering´ Observer


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