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Summer of My Amazing Luck

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Summer of My Amazing Luck
AuthorMiriam Toews
LanguageEnglish
Published1996 (Turnstone Press)
Publication placeCanada
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages192 pp (first edition)

Summer of My Amazing Luck is the first novel by the Canadian author Miriam Toews published in 1996 by Turnstone Press.[1]

It is a humorous novel about "welfare mothers" in a Winnipeg housing complex, who take a summer trip to Colorado.[2] The novel was shortlisted for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, and the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award. The story was loosely-based on Toews's own experiences as a young mother.[3]

After the success of A Complicated Kindness, Summer of My Amazing Luck and Toews's second novel A Boy of Good Breeding were re-released by Toews's current publisher Penguin Random House in 2006.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "Summer of My Amazing Luck and A Boy of Good Breeding". New York Times Book Review. Retrieved March 19, 2023.
  2. ^ Byrne, Kathleen (April 26, 1997). "Welfare! Single mothers! Illegitimacy! Jokes! Leacock-nominated novel will no doubt be targeted by book-banners for its high immorality content". The Globe and Mail.
  3. ^ Schwartz, Alexandra (March 18, 2019). "A Beloved Canadian Novelist Reckons with her Mennonite Past". The New Yorker.
  4. ^ "Summer of My Amazing Luck and A Boy of Good Breeding". New York Times Book Review. Retrieved March 19, 2023.