by Miriam Toews · Vintage Canada · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780676978476
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«Summer of My Amazing Luck» is Miriam Toews's literary fiction novel, published by Vintage Canada in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Two single mothers in a Winnipeg housing project cope with poverty, inspections, and neighbourhood gossip. Lucy doesn't know who her son's father is; Lish still pines for the fire-eater father of her twins. They flee in an old van to Colorado to find him, and Lucy discovers that this might be the summer of her amazing luck.
Miriam Toews's first novel, originally published in 1996. The work was shortlisted for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour.
For book clubs and readers of contemporary Canadian fiction with female protagonists, humour, and social realism.
Miriam Toews is a Canadian writer and author of ten books, including A Complicated Kindness (2004), All My Puny Sorrows (2014), and Women Talking (2018). She has won a number of literary prizes including the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award for her body of work. Toews is also a three-time finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a two-time winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
