The first half of the class we take things apart and then Madame rings a bell, which means it's the second half of the class and we're supposed to put things back together. I do Choice Time at the Take-Apart Centre, which is the place in our classroom where we put on safety goggles and take things apart. Have you ever heard of Choice Time? That's my favourite class.

You can read an excerpt from Fight Night below. A Complicated Kindness won Canada Reads in 2006.

She has won the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year, the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Writers' Trust Engel Findley Award. Toews is the author of seven novels, including Women Talking, All My Puny Sorrows, A Complicated Kindness and The Flying Troutmans. In turn, Swiv gives Grandma an assignment: to write a letter to 'Gord,' her unborn grandchild (and Swiv's soon-to-be brother or sister). When Swiv is expelled from school, she is given a unique assignment by her grandmother: write a letter to her absent father about her life.

The mother is raising Swiv while also caring for her own elderly, frail, yet extraordinarily lively mother. Fight Nightby Miriam Toews is on the shortlist for the $100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize.įight Night, Toews's ninth book, is about Swiv, a nine-year-old child who lives in Toronto with her pregnant mother.

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