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"Move over, Scout Finch! Thereâ€™s a new contender for feistiest girl in fiction, and her name is Swiv." -USA Today From the bestselling author of Women Talking and All My Puny Sorrows, a compassionate, darkly humorous, and deeply wise new novel about three generations of women. Indie Next Pick Amazon Editors Pick Apple Book of the Month Finalist for the Atwood-Gibson Writers Trust Fiction Prize Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize â€œYouâ€™re a small thing,â€ Grandma writes, â€œand you must learn to fight.â€ Swivâ€™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. 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.

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Miriam Toews is the author of seven previous bestselling novels, Women Talking, All My Puny Sorrows, Summer of My Amazing Luck, A Boy of Good Breeding, A Complicated Kindness, The Flying Troutmans, and Irma Voth, and one work of nonfiction, Swing Low: A Life. 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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