Fight Night

De: Miriam Toews

Narrado por: Miriam Toews, Georgia Toews

From the best-selling author of Women Talking and All My Puny Sorrows, a compassionate, darkly humorous, and deeply wise new novel about three generations of women.

“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, partner-less 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.

©2021 Miriam Toews (P)2021 Knopf Canada

Addicting!

This story and the performances were so compelling that I could hardly stop listening.

The great cycle of life

Illuminating and funny and fun and sweet. Also, this book is very good for an audiobook.

Tragedy and comedy meets in one short book

Beautiful novel. Very light and magical. A very well executed combination of tragedy and comedy. Life seen through a child’s eyes.

Wonderful joyful book

Easily one of my favorite books in a long stretch. Warm, funny, insightful, endearing. So glad the author was narrator—all the more delightful and with great comedic timing

A delightful telling of the relationship between three generations of women

I was instantly engaged by the narrator, a daughter and granddaughter, with anxiety and a whole hell of a lot on her plate.