by Miriam Toews · Counterpoint · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781582433462
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«Summer of My Amazing Luck» is Miriam Toews's novel, published by Counterpoint in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Lucy Van Alstyne, an eighteen-year-old single mother, lives with her baby in the Have-a-Life housing project, where she meets Lish, a mother of four daughters. When Lish receives letters, apparently from the father of her twins, they both decide to travel to Colorado to find him. Living with other mothers, poverty, and social services inspections mix with an adventure that will make Lucy reconsider her luck.
Debut novel by Canadian author Miriam Toews, originally published in 1996; this 2006 edition is in English, in paperback.
For readers of contemporary fiction and Canadian narrative; may appeal to those who enjoy stories with humour and vulnerable characters.
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.
