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Summer of My Amazing Luck
- Author
- Miriam Toews
- Narrator
- Amy Rutherford
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 25 September 2025
- Run Time
- 7 hours 7 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
The debut novel from the bestselling author of Women Talking, written with her signature wit and compassion.
Lucy and her eight-month-old son live in a Winnipeg housing project filled with single mothers on the dole. Still dealing with her own mother’s sudden death, and new to the ever-multiplying complications of life on welfare, Lucy strikes up a friendship with her neighbour, Lish. On the whole, they’re pretty happy… But Lucy wants to make sure they stay happy. And she has a plan.
Told with Toews’s signature scalding wit and deep compassion, Summer Of My Amazing Luck is a brilliantly funny book about the intricacies of friendship, grief, and poverty.
Critics Review
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'Warm, curious, alive on the page' New Yorker
‘Toews’ debut is a tart, affectionate look at welfare mothers …Toews is especially good on the “rollicking, happy, impoverished family” of the projects [and] scathing about the humiliations of poverty’ New York Times
'In the crucible of [Miriam Toews'] genius, tears and laughter are ground into some magical elixir that seems like the essence of life' Washington Post
A comic take on what initially appears a most improbable topic for humour' The Globe and Mail
'Offers a humorous look at the absurdities of the Canadian welfare system while unwinding the intricacies of a sticky-sweet friendship' Publishers Weekly
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Details
- Author
- Miriam Toews
- Narrator
- Amy Rutherford
- Duration
- 7 hours 7 minutes
- Release Date
- 25 September 2025
- ISBN
- 9780008725105
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Humorous fiction, Narrative theme: social issues / social problems
Synopsis
The debut novel from the bestselling author of Women Talking, written with her signature wit and compassion. Lucy and her eight-month-old son live in a Winnipeg housing project filled with single mothers on the dole. Still dealing with her own mother’s sudden death, and new to the ever-multiplying complications of life on welfare, Lucy strikes up a friendship with her neighbour, Lish. On the whole, they’re pretty happy… But Lucy wants to make sure they stay happy. And she has a plan. Told with Toews’s signature scalding wit and deep compassion, Summer Of My Amazing Luck is a brilliantly funny book about the intricacies of friendship, grief, and poverty.
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