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Summer of My Amazing Luck
- Author
- Miriam Toews
- Narrator
- Erin Moon
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish Date
- 20 March 2009
- Run Time
- 8 hours 21 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
“[A] memorable portrait of a struggling young person who finds unexpected resilience and peace … Hilarious, heartbreaking, and poignant.”—Booklist
From the author of Women Talking—now an Academy Award–winning film starring Claire Foy, Rooney Mara, Frances McDormand, and Jessie Buckley
Miriam 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.
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Details
- Author
- Miriam Toews
- Narrator
- Erin Moon
- Duration
- 8 hours 21 minutes
- Release Date
- 20 March 2009
- ISBN
- 9781440709258
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary, Religious and spiritual fiction
Synopsis
“[A] memorable portrait of a struggling young person who finds unexpected resilience and peace … Hilarious, heartbreaking, and poignant.”—Booklist From the author of Women Talking—now an Academy Award–winning film starring Claire Foy, Rooney Mara, Frances McDormand, and Jessie Buckley Miriam 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.
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