2022-2023 Book Review Series with Cathy Tile

Fight Night by Miriam Toews

The beloved author of bestsellers Women Talking, All My Puny Sorrows, and A Complicated Kindness returns with a funny, smart, headlong rush of a novel full of wit, flawless writing, and a tribute to perseverance and love in an unusual family.

Fight Night is told in the unforgettable voice of Swiv, a nine-year-old living in Toronto with her pregnant mother, who is raising Swiv while caring for her own elderly, frail, yet extraordinarily lively mother. As Swiv records her thoughts and observations, Fight Night unspools the pain, love, laughter, and above all, will to live a good life across three generations of women in a close-knit family. But it is Swiv’s exasperating, wise and irrepressible Grandma who is at the heart of this novel: someone who knows intimately what it costs to survive in this world, yet has found a way—painfully, joyously, ferociously—to love and fight to the end, on her own terms.

Series includes:

Mon. Oct 24: The Promise by Damon Galgut
Mon. Nov 28 : Fight Night by Miriam Toews – (date changed from Mon Dec 12)
Mon. Jan. 30: The Magician Novel by Colm Toibin
Mon. Mar. 20: The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
Mon. May 8: The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams