{"product_id":"summer-of-my-amazing-luck-isbn-9781640091856","title":"Summer of My Amazing Luck","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"[A] memorable portrait of a struggling young person who finds unexpected resilience and peace . . . Hilarious, heartbreaking, and poignant.\" —\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eWomen Talking\u003c\/i\u003e—now an Academy Award-winning film starring Claire Foy, Rooney Mara, Frances McDormand, and Jessie Buckley\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMiriam Toews welcomes her readers to the Have–a–Life housing project (better known as Half–a–Life). The welfare regulations are endless and the rate–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.\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eSummer of My Amazing Luck\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A picaresque account of two welfare moms having loopy adventures and getting by in the city . . . The novel’s voice [is] amused, warm, curious, alive on the page.\" —Alexandra Schwartz, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A comic take on what initially appears a most improbable topic for humour . . . it works.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Toews, author of \u003ci\u003eA Complicated Kindness\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), offers a mellow summer interlude that allows readers to revel in the not–so–simple pleasures of small–town life, and consider what matters most.\" —Danise Hoover, \u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"The novel offers a humorous look at the absurdities of the Canadian welfare system while unwinding the intricacies of a sticky–sweet friendship.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eMiriam Toews\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Complicated Kindness\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Governor General's Award and finalist for the Giller Prize, \u003ci\u003eA Boy of Good Breeding\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSwing Low: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e. She has written for \"This American Life,\" and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba.","brand":"Counterpoint","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299742470373,"sku":"NP9781640091856","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781640091856.jpg?v=1767737517","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/summer-of-my-amazing-luck-isbn-9781640091856","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}