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Fight Night

Miriam Toews

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#4125 of 8,085 books · #2056 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the Giller Prize (2021).

Fight Night was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was a Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalist. Swiv's Grandma, Elvira, has been fighting all her life. From her upbringing in a strict religious community, she has fought those who wanted to take away her joy, her independence, and her spirit. She has fought to make peace with her loved ones when they have chosen to leave her. And now, even as her health fails, Grandma is fighting for her family: for her daughter, partnerless and in the third term of a pregnancy; and for her granddaughter Swiv, a spirited nine-year-old who has been suspended from school. Cramped together in their Toronto home, on the precipice of extraordinary change, Grandma and Swiv undertake a vital new project, setting out to explain their lives in letters they will never send. Alternating between the exuberant, precocious voice of young Swiv and her irrepressible, tenacious Grandma, Fight Night is a love letter to mothers and grandmothers, and to all the women who are still fighting—painfully, ferociously— for a way to live on their own terms.

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Publisher
Cengage Gale
ISBN-13
9781635579789
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Family relationships across generationsResilience and survivalComing of age

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