Fight night / Miriam Toews.
Momo rauemi: TextKaiwhakaputa: London : Faber & Faber, 2022Copyright date: ©2021Edition: Export editionWhakaahuatanga: 251 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780571370726
- 0571370721
Momo tuemi | Tauwāhi onāianei | Kohinga | Tau karanga | Tūnga | Rā oti | Waeherepae | Ngā puringa tuemi | |
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Fiction | Ōpunakē LibraryPlus Fiction | Fiction | TOEW (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | Wātea | i2225615 |
Includes bibliographical references.
Swiv has taken her grandmother’s advice too literally. Now she’s at home, suspended from school. Mom is pregnant and preoccupied – and so Swiv is in the older woman’s charge, receiving a very different form of education from a teacher with a style all her own. Grandma likes her stories fast, troublesome and funny. She’s known the very worst that life can throw at you – and has met it every time with a wild, unnamable spirit, fighting for joy and independence every step of the way. But will maths lessons based on Amish jigsaws and classes on How to Dig a Winter Grave inspire the same fire in Swiv, and ensure it never goes out? Time is running short. Grandma’s health is failing, the baby is on the way, as a family of three extraordinary women prepare to face life’s great changes together.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.
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