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''Toews's 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

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.


''[A] picaresque account of two welfare moms having loopy adventures and getting by in the city... The novel's voice [is] amused, warm, curious, alive on the page.'' T

Summer of My Amazing Luck

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 4 July 2019
      ISBN-13 9780571345878
      978-0571345878
      ISBN-10 0571345875
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      Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''Toews's 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

      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.


      ''[A] picaresque account of two welfare moms having loopy adventures and getting by in the city... The novel's voice [is] amused, warm, curious, alive on the page.'' T

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