A shining testament to the power of strong women, this hilarious, engrossing novel from the author of All My Puny Sorrows finds a suspended student facing a highly unconventional education from her formidable grandmother.
You are a small thing, and you must learn to fight.
Swiv has taken her grandmother's advice too literally. Now she's at home, suspended from school. Mom is pregnant and preoccupied - and so Swiv is in the older woman's charge, receiving a very different form of education from a teacher with a style all her own.
Grandma likes her stories fast, troublesome and funny. She's known the very worst that life can throw at you - and has met it every time with a wild, unnamable spirit, fighting for joy and independence every step of the way. But will maths lessons based on Amish jigsaws and classes on How to Dig a Winter Grave inspire the same fire in Swiv, and ensure it never goes out?
Time is running short. Grandma's health is failing, the baby is on the way, as a family of three extraordinary women prepare to face life's great changes together.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571370719
Number of pages: 272
Weight: 383 g
Dimensions: 216 x 135 x 19 mm
Edition: Main
MEDIA REVIEWS
'Wickedly funny and fearlessly honest.' The New Yorker'The last book that made me cry.' JOSHUA FERRIS'A love letter to our brave and brilliant matriarchs.' Glamour
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