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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 ow

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Author

Miriam Toews

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781635579789

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Contemporary Fiction