Manitoba Reads - Summer of My Amazing Luck by Miriam Toews

Friday, Jul 27, 2012 at 3:50pm

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Shortlisted for both the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award and the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, Miriam Toews' debut novel, Summer of My Amazing Luck, tracks Lucy Van Alstyne - aka Single Mother on the Dole - and her flamboyant friend Lish, mother of four, as they navigate the humiliations and hilarity of life with too little money and the boundless chaos of young children. When they all take off in a van held together with coat-hangers and electrical tape and crammed to the hilt with kids and toys, it dawns on Lucy that this may be the summer of her amazing luck.

Miriam Toews is one of Canada's most celebrated writers. She has won the Governor General's Award, the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, and been nominated for the Giller Prize. She lives now in Toronto.

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