Summer of My Amazing Luck
by:
Miriam Toews (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B009BXNOAA
Publish date: January 8th 2010
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
There's nothing amazing or lucky in this book. Perhaps a better title would have been, "My Down-And-Out Tale." Perhaps the title is trying to be ironic. It's a story about a single mother who's on welfare. Her situation is miserable. But her story is told with an air of humor and indifference t...
I did not love Summer of My Amazing Luck the way I did A Complicated Kindness and The Flying Troutmans--two novels that Toews wrote after this one. The writing is in the same sort of fast-paced, conversational style, but somehow everyone in the book felt more real to me than the first person narrat...
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