Summer of My Amazing Luck: A Novel

Summer of My Amazing Luck: A Novel
by Miriam Toews

Summer of My Amazing Luck: A Novel
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Author: Miriam Toews
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-07-05
ISBN: 1582433461
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Counterpoint

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Book Review: Single mothers' Canadian club
Summary: 5 Stars

Lucy, the first person narrator, and Lish are unwed mothers living in public housing in Winnipeg, Manitoba, a place where Fargo is considered the warm south. Lucy does not know the father of her child because "if you eat a whole can of beans how can you tell which one gave you gas." There are so many unfathered children in the building that their version of the alphabet song is "ABCDEFGHIJKalimony please". Both Lucy and Lish have difficult relationships with conventional respectable unsupportive (in the emotional sense) fathers of their own. These relationships form a faint thread of a plot, although the novel is largely made up of the intersecting stories of the other mothers in the building.
I was reminded of Adrian Leblanc's serious non-fiction "Random Family." That's a great book but Toew's is better, and actually contains more information about the singles mother's predicament, and offers more insight into her motivation, as well as being hilariously funny..
Once again we have a great Canadian female writer. Why is Canada the only country where a list of the top five writers cannot be made up that is not predominantly female?

Summary of Summer of My Amazing Luck: A Novel

By the author of Swing Low. Welcome to Have-a-Life welfare housing project (better known as Half-a-Life). The welfare regulations are endless and the ratfink neighbours won't mind their own business, but when Lish and Lucy head to Colorado to find the fire-eater, Lucy discovers this just may be the summer of her amazing luck.

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