Fight Night - by Miriam Toews (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Fight Night is told in the unforgettable voice of Swiv, a nine-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 and 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."<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Move over, Scout Finch! There's a new contender for feistiest girl in fiction, and her name is Swiv. -<i>USA Today</i></b><b> <p/>From the bestselling author of <i>Women Talking</i> and<i> All My Puny Sorrows</i>, a compassionate, darkly humorous, and deeply wise new novel about three generations of women.</b> <p/><b>Indie Next Pick<br>Amazon Editors' Pick<br>Apple Book of the Month<br>Finalist for the Atwood-Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize<br>Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize</b> <p/>"You're a small thing," Grandma writes, "and you must learn to fight." 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. <p/>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Ardent, hilarious, and moving." - <i>NPR.org</i> <p/>"If the book's overwhelming tenderness makes the reader cry, they'll be, as Swiv's mother teaches her, 'tears of happiness.'" - <i>Nadja Spiegelman, New York Times</i> <p/>"A touching tribute to the matrilineal bond among three women of different generations." <i>- Los Angeles Times</i> <p/>"Toews will make you cheer and sob for all concerned" - <i>Boston Globe</i> <p/>"Go Grandma Elvira!" - <i>Margaret Atwood via Twitter</i> <p/>"The last book that made me cry. It took only a line or two to be reminded of why I read fiction and why I write it. Toews doesn't simply narrate a story; she fashions a world." - <i>Joshua Ferris, The Guardian</i> <p/>"A big-hearted, briskly paced family saga about the extraordinary love that binds three generations of free-spirited women together, and the tools and techniques that they've had to develop to survive." - <i>USA Today</i> <p/>"I laughed and cried reading this book; I can't think of a higher endorsement." - <i>BuzzFeed, "Best of the Season"</i> <p/>"A relentlessly entertaining novel about three generations of women living under one roof." - <i>Lit Hub, "Most Anticipated"</i> <p/>"A love letter to our brave and brilliant matriarchs." - <i>Glamour</i> <p/>"A novel as moving as it is full of humor . . . As Susan Cole, in <i>Now Magazine</i>, says, 'Few authors mix humor and deep emotion with Toews's skill.'" - <i>The Millions, "Most Anticipated"</i> <p/><i></i>Miriam Toews [is] a master of the novel. Every book of hers is magic. This one's magic is terrifying, perhaps even more than others, but it's compelling and inescapable, demanding to be read. -<i>New York Journal of Books</i> <p/>"Fierce and funny, this gives undeniable testimony to the life force of family . . . a knockout." - <i>Publishers Weekly, starred review</i> <p/>"[A] charming, open-hearted book . . . Funny and sad and exquisitely tender." - <i>Kirkus Reviews, starred review</i> <p/>"Brilliant . . . Toews gives Swiv a voice that is sophisticated, childlike and utterly believable. . . . the wonder of <i>Fight Night</i> is that it's a warmhearted and inventive portrait of women who have learned to fight against adversity." - <i>BookPage, starred review</i> <p/>"<i>Women Talking</i> author Toews is at the top of her game in this novel . . . [It's] fierce and funny, and gives undeniable testimony to the life force of family." - <i>Publishers Weekly, Holiday Gift Guide</i> <p/>"[A] tightknit, funny, ferocious trio . . . This novel, with its stream-of-consciousness style, unfiltered raucous humor, and hard-won wisdom is the kind of reading that makes me evangelical. I adored the girl and the women in <i>Fight Night</i> and am grateful to Miriam Toews to bringing them so beautifully to life." - <i>Gilmore Guide to Books</i> <p/>"In <i>Fight Night</i> as in her previous books, Miriam Toews is a genius. Her gigantic mind and heart are singular; her sentence-making powers, extraordinary. Living in a time when Toews is writing is a reason to rejoice." - <i>R.O. Kwon, author of THE INCENDIARIES</i> <p/>"<i>Fight Night</i> is a headlong rush of a novel narrated by a precocious nine-year-old girl who is doing everything she can to keep her troubled mother from falling apart and her irrepressible grandmother alive. Tender, heart-wrenching, darkly funny, and ultimately joyful, this novel pulses with life." - <i>Christina Baker Kline, bestselling author of THE EXILES and ORPHAN TRAIN</i> <p/>"Miriam Toews is wickedly funny and fearlessly honest . . . She is an artist of escape; she always finds a way for her characters, trapped by circumstance, to liberate themselves." - <i>The New Yorker</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Miriam Toews </b>is the author of seven previous bestselling novels, <i>Women Talking, All My Puny Sorrows, Summer of My Amazing Luck, A Boy of Good Breeding, A Complicated Kindness, The Flying Troutmans, </i>and <i>Irma Voth</i>, and one work of nonfiction, <i> Swing Low: A Life</i>. She is 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 Engel/Findley Award. She lives in Toronto
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