Fight Night

Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

Nació en Steinbach, Canadá, en 1964. Entre sus títulos más conocidos destacan las novelas Complicada bondad (Anagrama, 2007) y Ellas hablan (Sexto Piso, 2020). Su obra ha sido galardonada con una decena de premios, entre ellos los dos más importantes que puede recibir un autor canadiense: el Governor General's Award for Fiction y el Premio Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction (en dos ocasiones). Pequeñas desgracias sin importancia ha sido recientemente adaptada al cine.