Summer of My Amazing Luck

Kirjan Summer of My Amazing Luck (2019) on kirjoittanut Miriam Toews. Kirjan kieli on englanti, ja sen on kustantanut Faber Faber. Kirja on laajuudeltaan 240 sivua ja se on nidottu.

'Toews's debut is a tart, affectionate look at welfare mothers. .. Toews is especially good on the "rollicking, happy, impoverished family" of the projects [and] scathing about the humiliations of poverty. ' New York TimesLucy and her eight-month-old son live in a Winnipeg housing project filled with single mothers on the dole. Still dealing with her own mother's sudden death, and new to the ever-multiplying complications of life on welfare, Lucy strikes up a friendship with her neighbour, Lish. On the whole, they're pretty happy . . . But Lucy wants to make sure they stay happy. And she has a plan. Told with Toews's signature scalding wit and deep compassion, Summer of my Amazing Luck is a brilliantly funny book about the intricacies of friendship, grief, and poverty. '[A] picaresque account of two welfare moms having loopy adventures and getting by in the city. .. The novel's voice [is] amused, warm, curious, alive on the page. ' The New Yorker