{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/62065b88f850df0012335061/634fca2c187aae00124d7c17?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"🥊 Miriam Toews on Sweary Matriarchs, the Absurdity of Life, and the Human Imperative to Experience Joy🥊","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/62065b88f850df0012335061/1666173419028-8579752abb5b7ec0c844b2f54192434c.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Fight Night by Miriam Toews is a love letter to mothers and daughters, and grandmothers and granddaughters. Told from the perspective of nine-year-old Swiv, who’s having to deal with the imminent upheavals of the birth of a sibling and the declining health of her beloved grandma. With Swiv’s opening words — “Dear Dad, How are you? I was expelled.” — readers are drawn into the chaotic, ramshackle but love-and-life-filled world of this family. A world in which the only way through is to fight.</p><p><br></p><p>Buy Fight Night: <a href=\"https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/product/6240767/toews-miriam-fight-night\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/product/6240767/toews-miriam-fight-night</a></p><p><br></p><p>*</p><p><br></p><p>SUBSCRIBE NOW FOR BONUS EPISODES</p><p><br></p><p>Looking for Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses? https://podfollow.com/sandcoulysses</p><p><br></p><p>If you want to spend even more time at Shakespeare and Company, you can now subscribe for regular bonus episodes and early access to Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses.</p><p><br></p><p>Subscribe on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/sandco</p><p>Subscribe on Apple Podcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/shakespeare-and-company-writers-books-and-paris/id1040121937?l=en</p><p><br></p><p>All money raised goes to supporting “Friends of Shakespeare and Company” the bookshop’s non-profit, created to fund our noncommercial activities—from the upstairs reading library, to the writers-in-residence program, to our charitable collaborations, and our free events.</p><p><br></p><p>*</p><p><br></p><p>Miriam Toews is the author of seven novels:&nbsp;Summer of My&nbsp;Amazing Luck,&nbsp;A Boy of Good Breeding,&nbsp;A Complicated Kindness,&nbsp;The&nbsp;Flying Troutmans,&nbsp;Irma Voth,&nbsp;All My Puny Sorrows,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Women Talking,&nbsp;and one work of non-fiction,&nbsp;Swing Low: A Life. She is a winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the Writers Trust…</p><p><br></p><p>Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. Buy a signed copy of his novel Feeding Time here: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/product/7209940/biles-adam-feeding-time</p><p><br></p><p>Listen to Alex Freiman’s Play It Gentle here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4gfkDcG32HYlXnBqI0xgQX?si=mf0Vw-kuRS-ai15aL9kLNA&amp;dl_branch=1</p>","author_name":"Shakespeare and Company"}