Fight Night Fight Night

Fight Night

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Publisher Description

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE 2021 ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZE


Named a Best Book of the Year by The Globe and Mail ● CBC ● USA Today ● NPR

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
An Amazon Editors’ Pick
An Indie Next Pick
An Apple Book of the Month
One of Indigo’s “Top 10 Best Canadian Fiction Books of 2021”

The beloved author of bestsellers Women Talking, All My Puny Sorrows, and A Complicated Kindness returns with a funny, smart, headlong rush of a novel full of wit, flawless writing, and a tribute to perseverance and love in an unusual family.

 
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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2021
August 24
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
264
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Canada
SELLER
Penguin Random House Canada
SIZE
1.2
MB

Customer Reviews

SxottyD ,

Fight Night

A novel novel on many levels.

A fast paced story about a young girl ‘s family circumstances and her unusual bonded relationship with her irreverent, chaotic , fearless Grandmother . Soulful and amusing.

Fluently Written in an original style..

John%-S ,

Fight Night

Wonderful! Hilarious and heartbreaking.

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