Before the event begins, you will see a countdown and the event image. 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. 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. Author Miriam Toews will appear live on Crowdcast to discuss her newest book, Fight Night, in conversation with Shannon Henry Kleiber of WPR’s To the Best of Our Knowledge. Miriam Toews is the author of seven bestselling novels: Women Talking, All My Puny Sorrows, Irma Voth, The Flying Troutmans, A Complicated Kindness, A Boy of Good Breeding, and Summer of My Amazing Luck, and one work of non-fiction, Swing Low: A Life. The intelligence on display in Women Talking is as. Alternating 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. Books by Miriam Toews (Author of Women Talking) Books by Miriam Toews Miriam Toews Average rating 3. Toews emphasis on names and definitions serves to highlight how precise her own writing is, and how smart.

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