Fight Night
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When Swiv is temporarily kicked out of school, her Grandma gives her an assignment to write a letter to her absent father. Swiv’s assignment to Grandma is to write a letter to Gord, her unborn grandchild and Swiv’s brother or sister. ‘You are a small thing’, Grandma writes to Gord, ‘but you must learn to fight’, Grandma has been fighting all her life: she has fought to protect her family, and she has fought to make peace with her loved ones when they have chosen to leave her. Swiv’s mother, too, is fighting ‘on every front’, as Grandma puts it, ‘Internally. Externally’.
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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
Additional information
| Weight | 0.283 kg |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 21.6 × 13.5 × 1.9 cm |
| Book_author | Toews, Miriam |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Imprint | Faber & Faber |
| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 336 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | C format original |
| Dewey | 813.6 (edition:23) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
