Fight night
(Adult Book)
Author
Published
Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, [2021].
Format
Adult Book
ISBN
9780735282391
Physical Desc
251 pages ; 22 cm.
Status
Fiction (Adult) - Fiction Shelves
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Published
Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, [2021].
Language
English
ISBN
9780735282391
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Fight Night is told in the unforgettable voice of Swiv, a nine-year-old living in Toronto with her pregnant mother, who is raising Swiv while caring for her own elderly, frail, yet extraordinarily lively mother. When Swiv is expelled from school, Grandma takes on the role of teacher and gives her the task of writing to Swiv's absent father about life in the household during the last trimester of the pregnancy. In turn, Swiv gives Grandma an assignment: to write a letter to "Gord," her unborn grandchild (and Swiv's soon-to-be brother or sister). "You're a small thing," Grandma writes to Gord, "and you must learn to fight." As Swiv records her thoughts and observations, Fight Night unspools the pain, love, laughter, and above all, will to live a good life across three generations of women in a close-knit family. But it is Swiv's exasperating, wise and irrepressible Grandma who is at the heart of this novel: someone who knows intimately what it costs to survive in this world, yet has found a way--painfully, joyously, ferociously--to love and fight to the end, on her own terms.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Toews, M. (2021). Fight night . Alfred A. Knopf Canada.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Toews, Miriam, 1964-. 2021. Fight Night. Alfred A. Knopf Canada.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Toews, Miriam, 1964-. Fight Night Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Toews, Miriam. Fight Night Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2021.
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