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Fight Night: 'A Gem: humour and hope in the face of suffering' Observer by Miriam Toews
'I doubt I'll read a better novel.' Big Issue 'Go Grandma Elvira!' Margaret Atwood 'Wickedly funny and fearlessly honest.' The New Yorker 'Glorious.' Sarah Moss '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 ____________ 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. 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. Read more
“Mom talked about fighting. She said if she wasn’t fighting she was dying. And that she has to fight to feel alive and to balance things out. So she keeps fighting. She said we’re all fighters, our whole family. Even the dead ones. They fought the hardest.” FIGHT NIGHT is about the glorious fight with life, to fight the stabs of grief and depression with the persistence and practice of everyday living. The fight for survival, and the fight to embrace, lovingly, all that existence has to offer, great and small, sorrow or joy. In a droll and tragicomic narrative, Miriam Toews cuts right to the heart of our hearts, and shows us, not tells us, a family of three generations of women waking up every day to the noise of lifing. There are so many glittering gems in this book, and brilliant characterizations, I found myself highlighting passages until the book was a magical, fluorescent glow. Even the minor characters are pitch-perfect. Grandma/Elvira is dying--her heart is giving out, but her humor prevails. “She has one foot in the grave. She’s not afraid of anything,” so writes Swiv, the nine-year-old Sudoku-loving narrator. She was expelled from school and is being homeschooled by Grandma. Swiv is writing a letter to her missing father---the entire novel is her missive. Her mother, Mooshie, is a pregnant actress, despairing that she drove her husband away. Distress was an early part of her life. Elvira and Mooshie were traumatized by their religious leaders, a generational trauma that permeated the whole family, with resulting blows for some of them. Through utterly unforgettable slapstick, cinematic scenes (Swiv driving a stick shift, Elvira dancing and tumbling-- splat, the blunders of airport travel, and MORE), the reader’s heart will shatter in sixty thousand pieces. And through it all, Elvira laughs and laughs in laughing fits, uncontrollable LOL moments that I found contagious and healing. Grandma’s defiance is vivid and endearing; I’ve never known a literary grandmother to leap quite so high off the pages before. “At some point in Grandma’s life someone must have threatened to kill her whole family unless she became friends with every single person she met.” No small accomplishment in writing Swiv’s character, either! She's spunky, messy, ferociously fresh. Toews nails it. She brings the absurd and the intimate and the cataclysmic together with masterful attention. Every. Single. Page is a blessing of curses and a delight to read. This is my first Toews, but it won’t be my last.
ASIN -> B092FPGXQM Publisher -> Faber & Faber (March 8, 2022) Publication date -> March 8, 2022 Language -> English File size -> 985 KB Text-to-Speech -> Enabled Screen Reader -> Supported Enhanced typesetting -> Enabled
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