Fight Night: 'A Gem: humour and hope in the face of suffering' Observer

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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHORLONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD


'Go Grandma Elvira!' - Margaret Atwood
'Wickedly funny and fearlessly honest.' - The New Yorker
'Glorious.' - Sarah Moss


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 outPoignant, 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

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Wickedly funny and fearlessly honest.' - The New Yorker
'Fight Night is glorious: funny and sad and beautifully written.' - Sarah Moss

Author Bio

Miriam Toews is the bestselling author of eight novels: Summer of My Amazing Luck, A Boy of Good Breeding, A Complicated Kindness,The Flying Troutmans, Irma Voth, All My Puny Sorrows, Fight Night and Women Talking 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.