Del Mar - Tuesday April 11th at 6 pm - Monthly Book Group reads and discusses "Fight Night" by Miriam Toews.
Join us Tuesday April 11th at 6:00 pm as we meet to discuss "Fight Night" by Miriam Toews.
What is everyone reading in Del Mar? Want to join a book group but don't know where to start?
Look no further! Join us at DIESEL on the first Tuesday of each month at 6:00PM, where we will meet to discuss the past month's book club pick. Each month's book is selected by book group members! DIESEL Del Mar First Tuesdays Book Group is open to all, simply check here to see what we are reading each month and come to the next meeting to participate. If you would like to be added to our mailing list for DIESEL Del Mar's First Tuesday's Book Group, please email delmar@dieselbookstore.com.
“You’re a small thing,” Grandma writes, “and you must learn to fight.” Swiv’s Grandma, Elvira, has been fighting all her life. From her upbringing in a strict religious community, she has fought those who wanted to take away her joy, her independence, and her spirit. She has fought to make peace with her loved ones when they have chosen to leave her. And now, even as her health fails, Grandma is fighting for her family: for her daughter, partnerless and in the third term of a pregnancy; and for her granddaughter Swiv, a spirited nine-year-old who has been suspended from school. Cramped together in their Toronto home, on the precipice of extraordinary change, Grandma and Swiv undertake a vital new project, setting out to explain their lives in letters they will never send.
Alternating between the exuberant, precocious voice of young Swiv and her irrepressible, tenacious Grandma, Fight Night is a love letter to mothers and grandmothers, and to all the women who are still fighting―painfully, ferociously― for a way to live on their own terms.