Summer of my amazing luck: a novel
โ Scribed by Miriam Toews
- Publisher
- Counterpoint
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 175 KB
- Edition
- First Counterpoint Paperback edition
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Berkeley, California
- ISBN
- 1640091858
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
"A comic take on what initially appears a most improbable topic for humour." --The Globe and Mail By the author of All My Puny Sorrows , readers are welcomed to Have-a-Life welfare housing project (better known as Half-a-Life.) The welfare regulations are endless and the rat-fink neighbors won't mind their own business. Lucy Von Alstyne sends fictitious letters to her friend Alicia, pretending to be the father of Alicia's twins. When the two mothers and their five children set off on a journey to find him, facing along the way the complications of living in poverty and raising fatherless children, Lucy discovers this just may be the summer of her amazing luck.
โฆ Subjects
Fiction
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