Fight Night

Resumen del libro

When nine year old Swiv is kicked out of school for fighting, she finds she doesn't mind very much. At home, classes include Poached Egg and How to Dig a Winter Grave, and her Grandma is a lively - if exasperating - teacher. Swiv isn't the only member of her family who has been fighting.

Grandma has fought her whole life: for her independence, for her spirit, and for her children. And, as Swiv will learn, her mother is a woman who knows intimately what it can cost to survive in this world, and is battling - painfully, ferociously - on every front.

Biografía del autor

(Steinbach, Canadá, 1964) es una de las escritoras canadienses más relevantes de su generación. Ha escrito ocho libros, entre los que destacan la obra de no ficción Swing Low: A Life (2000) y las novelas Complicada bondad (Anagrama, 2007) y All My Puny Sorrows (2014). Su obra ha sido galardonada con una decena de premios, entre ellos el Governor General's Award for Fiction, el Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize (en dos ocasiones) y el Writers Trust Marian Engel/Timothy Findley Award. De ascendencia menonita, varias de sus obras versan sobre el papel de las mujeres en estas comunidades.