Fight Night
Author(s): Miriam Toews
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.
You are a small thing, and you must learn to fight. Swiv has taken her grandmother's advice too literally. Now she's at home, suspended from school. Mom is pregnant and preoccupied - and so Swiv is in the older woman's charge, receiving a very different form of education from a teacher with a style all her own.
Grandma likes her stories fast, troublesome and funny. She's known the very worst that life can throw at you - and has met it every time with a wild, unnamable spirit, fighting for joy and independence every step of the way. But will maths lessons based on Amish jigsaws and classes on How to Dig a Winter Grave inspire the same fire in Swiv, and ensure it never goes out?
Time is running short. Grandma's health is failing, the baby is on the way, as a family of three extraordinary women prepare to face life's great changes together.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Faber & Faber
- : Faber & Faber
- : 0.283
- : 01 November 2021
- : {"length"=>["8.504"], "width"=>["5.315"], "units"=>["Inches"]}
- : books
Special Fields
- : Miriam Toews
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 813.6
- : very good
- : 336
- : FA