“Toews is a master of dialogue, swirling the adults' perspectives through Swiv's imperfect ventriloquism as if she were mixing paints.” - New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice 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.Īlternating 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. 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. She has fought to make peace with her loved ones when they have chosen to leave her. From her upbringing in a strict religious community, she has fought those who wanted to take away her joy, her independence, and her spirit. “You're a small thing,” Grandma writes, “and you must learn to fight.” Swiv's Grandma, Elvira, has been fighting all her life. NPR Best Books of the Year * Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize * Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Finalist * Indie Next Pick * Amazon Editors' Pick * Apple Book of the Monthįrom the bestselling author of Women Talking and All My Puny Sorrows, a compassionate, darkly humorous, and deeply wise novel about three generations of women. 'Toews is a master of dialogue.' - New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice 'Move over, Scout Finch! There's a new contender for feistiest girl in fiction, and her name is Swiv.' - USA Today, 'Best Books of the Year'

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