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Sarah Miller's avatar

Fight Night is so good -- so funny and sad and moving all at once. (Is there anything Miriam Toews can't do?)

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Elizabeth's avatar

She's so talented. That ending would have felt so schmaltzy in anyone else's hands.

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Sarah Miller's avatar

100% agree.

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Samantha Bye's avatar

I'm yet to read anything by Miriam Toews (the to-read pile grows) - is Fight Night a good place to start? I am also usually sceptical of child narrators for the same reason you mentioned!

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Elizabeth's avatar

I think it is. It's both literary and accessible and will give you a sense of the themes she works with.

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Samantha Bye's avatar

Great, thank you! Added it to the list :)

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Marg Moon's avatar

I'm looking forward to trying that scone recipe. Have you read Anna Quindlen's book Still Life with Breadcrumbs? It's one of my favourite books and one of the characters has a coffee shop where she sells all different types of scones. It made me want to bake some.

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siesta Mary's avatar

Thank you for sharing the scone recipe, always on the lookout for a good one!

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