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Fight Night
- Author
- Miriam Toews
- Narrator
- Georgia Toews, Miriam Toews
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Publish Date
- 8 March 2022
- Run Time
- 6 hours 20 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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You are a small thing, and you must learn to fight.
Swiv has taken this advice too literally. Now she's suspended from school, in the care of her foul-mouthed, hilarious grandmother.
Mom is busy being pregnant, so Grandma gives Swiv a very different education. Swiv learns maths with Amish jigsaws and How to Dig a Winter Grave. Grandma's methods may be unorthodox, but she has faced the worst of life with a wild, independent spirit and this is what she hopes to pass on.
Time is running short. Grandma's health is failing and the baby is on the way - can Grandma inspire this fire in Swiv, and ensure it never goes out?
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.
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Details
- Author
- Miriam Toews
- Narrator
- Georgia Toews, Miriam Toews
- Duration
- 6 hours 20 minutes
- Release Date
- 8 March 2022
- ISBN
- 9780571370757
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
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.
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