''I doubt I''ll read a better novel.'' Big Issue ''Go Grandma Elvira!'' Margaret Atwood ''Wickedly funny and fearlessly honest.'' The New Yorker ''Glorious.'' Sarah Moss ''A love letter to our brave and brilliant matriarchs.'' Glamour ''Miriam Toews is a genius.'' R. O. Kwon ''As compelling and hilarious and indecently sad as life can be.'' Financial Times ____________ You are a small thing, and you must learn to fight. Swiv has taken her grandmother''s advice too literally. Now she''s at home, suspended from school. Mom is pregnant and preoccupied - and so Swiv is in the older woman''s charge, receiving a very different form of education from a teacher with a style all her own. Grandma likes her stories fast, troublesome and funny. She''s known the very worst that life can throw at you - and has met it every time with a wild, unnamable spirit, fighting for joy and independence every step of the way. But will maths lessons based on Amish jigsaws and classes on How to Dig a Winter Grave inspire the same fire in Swiv, and ensure it never goes out? Time is running short. Grandma''s health is failing, the baby is on the way, as a family of three extraordinary women prepare to face life''s great changes together. 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. Lire la suite Fermer

Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote religious Mennonite colony, over a hundred girls and women were knocked unconscious and raped, often repeatedly, by what many thought were ghosts or demons, as a punishment for their sins. As the women tentatively began to share the details of the attacks-waking up sore and bleeding and not understanding why-their stories were chalked up to 'wild female imagination.' Women Talking is an imagined response to these real events. Eight women, all illiterate, without any knowledge of the world outside their colony and unable even to speak the language of the country they live in, meet secretly in a hayloft with the intention of making a decision about how to protect themselves and their daughters from future harm. They have two days to make a plan, while the men of the colony are away in the city attempting to raise enough money to bail out the rapists (not ghosts as it turns out but local men) and bring them home. How should we live? How should we love? How should we treat one another? How should we organise our societies? These are questions the women in Women Talking ask one another-and Miriam Toews makes them the questions we must all ask ourselves.
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