03100cam a2200325 4500 543866996 TxAuBib 20211217120000.0 ||||||s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781635578188 1635578183 B092QZ4W8F Amazon e7860fc2-5c64-4950-9987-e2e5067955ef OverDrive (Reserve ID) 6216054 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Toews, Miriam, 1964- Fight Night [Libby]. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1155kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. HTML:<b>"Move over, Scout Finch! There's a new contender for feistiest girl in fiction, and her name is Swiv." -<i>USA Today</i>, "Best Books of the Year"</b><br /> <b><br /></b><b>"Toews is a master of dialogue." - <i>New York Times Book Review</i>, Editors' Choice<br /></b><b>NPR Best Books of the Year * Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize * Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Finalist * Indie Next Pick * Amazon Editors' Pick * Apple Book of the Month</b><br /> <b><br /></b><b>From the bestselling author of <i>Women Talking</i> and <i>All My Puny Sorrows</i>, a compassionate, darkly humorous, and deeply wise novel about three generations of women.</b><br /> <b><br /></b>"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.<br /> Alternating between the exuberant, precocious voice of young Swiv and her irrepressible, tenacious Grandma, <i>Fight Night</i> 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.<br />. Media Type: eBook. Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-12-17 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e7860fc2-5c64-4950-9987-e2e5067955ef&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e7860fc2-5c64-4950-9987-e2e5067955ef&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e7860fc2-5c64-4950-9987-e2e5067955ef&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)