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Registration is capped, so please register early if you are planning on attending. Grab a glass of wine at the bar and tell us what you thought of the book! Our informal discussion will be led by Liv Stratman, author of Cheat Day. Purchase the book hereor get the audiobook here. 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.Īlternating 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. 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. Toews (pronounced Taves) grew up in a small Mennonite town. “You're a small thing,” Grandma writes, “and you must learn to fight.” Swiv's Grandma, Elvira, has been fighting all her life. Miriam Toews describes her latest book as an imagined response to crimes perpetrated against Mennonite women in Bolivia. Written in an accessible style that will appeal to both scholars and devotees of Toews’s work, Lives Lived, Lives Imagined is a timely examination of Toews’s oeuvre and a celebration of fiction’s ability to simultaneously embody compassion and anger, joy and sadness, and to brave the personal and communal oppressions of politics, religion, family, society, and mental illness.From the bestselling author of Women Talking and All My Puny Sorrows, a compassionate, darkly humorous, and deeply wise novel about three generations of women. The deaths by suicide of Toews’s father and sister stand out as the most shocking and tragic of the author’s biographical details, and Reed explores Toews’s use of autofiction as a reparative gesture in the face of this trauma. Reed skillfully demonstrates how Toews situates resilience across key themes, including: the home as both a source of trauma and an inspiration for resilient action the road trip as a search for resolution and redemption and the reframing of the Mennonite diaspora as an escape from patriarchal oppression. But although what follows is imagined, the root is not. In this first monograph on Toews’s work, Sabrina Reed examines the interplay of trauma and resilience in the author’s fiction. Adapted from Miriam Toews’s 2018 novel by Canadian director Sarah Polley, it is certainly the product of female invention. Perceptive, controversial, topical, and achingly funny, Miriam Toews’s books have earned her a place at the forefront of Canadian literature.
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