Description
You are a small thing, and you must learn to fight.
Swiv has taken this advice too literally. Now she's suspended from school, in the care of her foul-mouthed, hilarious grandmother.
Mom is busy being pregnant, so Grandma gives Swiv a very different education. Swiv learns maths with Amish jigsaws and How to Dig a Winter Grave. Grandma's methods may be unorthodox, but she has faced the worst of life with a wild, independent spirit and this is what she hopes to pass on.
Time is running short. Grandma's health is failing and the baby is on the way — can Grandma inspire this fire in Swiv, and ensure it never goes out?
Poignant, hilarious and deeply moving, Fight Night is a girl's love letter to the women raising her and a tribute to one family's fighting spirit.
Endorsements
'Go Grandma Elvira!' — Margaret Atwood
'Wickedly funny and fearlessly honest.' — The New Yorker
'Glorious.' — Sarah Moss
'A love letter to our brave and brilliant matriarchs.' — Glamour
'Miriam Toews is a genius.' — R. O. Kwon
'As compelling and hilarious and indecently sad as life can be.' — Financial Times
Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award
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