Summer of My Amazing Luck
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Summer of My Amazing Luck
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Narrated by:
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Amy Rutherford
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By:
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Miriam Toews
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The debut novel from the bestselling author of Women Talking, written with her signature wit and compassion.
Lucy and her eight-month-old son live in a Winnipeg housing project filled with single mothers on the dole. Still dealing with her own mother’s sudden death, and new to the ever-multiplying complications of life on welfare, Lucy strikes up a friendship with her neighbour, Lish. On the whole, they’re pretty happy… But Lucy wants to make sure they stay happy. And she has a plan.
Told with Toews’s signature scalding wit and deep compassion, Summer Of My Amazing Luck is a brilliantly funny book about the intricacies of friendship, grief, and poverty.
©2025 Miriam Toews (P)2017 Penguin Random House Canada LimitedCritic Reviews
'Warm, curious, alive on the page' New Yorker
‘Toews’ debut is a tart, affectionate look at welfare mothers …Toews is especially good on the “rollicking, happy, impoverished family” of the projects [and] scathing about the humiliations of poverty’ New York Times
'In the crucible of [Miriam Toews'] genius, tears and laughter are ground into some magical elixir that seems like the essence of life' Washington Post
A comic take on what initially appears a most improbable topic for humour' The Globe and Mail
'Offers a humorous look at the absurdities of the Canadian welfare system while unwinding the intricacies of a sticky-sweet friendship' Publishers Weekly