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Summer of My Amazing Luck, by Miriam Toews, is in one sense the flip side of Woman's Work. The eighteen-year-old Lucy Van Alstyne, although born into a solidly upper-middle-class family, ends up living in a welfare housing project. She has no idea who her baby's father is and doesn't seem to care but, like many of the women in the project, dreams of one day meeting a man who will take care of her and her son. Her best friend, Lish, is down on men yet pines for the father of her twins, a fire-eating busker whom she knew for a full week before he left town, with her wallet.
The novel is primarily a chronicle of housing project life. There are numerous characters who make cameo appearances, and inevitably their main concern (like Lucy's and Lish's) is men. Here is a representative sample: "When you're a mother on the dole you don't get a lot of opportunities to meet men. And it's damn lonely at times. Maybe Joe was better than nothing at all."
Despite its lacklustre, almost non-existent plot, the novel does seem concerned with presenting the lives of women who do not often make it to the pages of Canadian fiction. It's just too bad it presents these lives as borderline banal. Eva Tihanyi(Books in Canada) This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Originally published in Canada in 1996, this light treat by the author of A Complicated Kindness and A Boy of Good Breeding sees 18-year-old single mother Lucy Van Alstyne join the nouveau poor on the dole in Winnipeg, Manitoba. At a public housing complex nicknamed Half-A-Life, mothering is the noblest calling and absent fathers are as relevant as orbiting "space junk." Lucy doesn't know which of "eight or nine" fleeting lovers fathered her infant son, Dillinger (named after John Dillinger, who Lucy insists is a lucky man and still alive); her fast friend Alicia fantasizes about reuniting with the fire-eating juggler who got her pregnant with twins during a one-night stand several years earlier. Lucy fabricates letters to Alicia from the fire-eater, and the two women and their five kids set off to search for him. The novel offers a humorous look at the absurdities of the Canadian welfare system while unwinding the intricacies of a sticky-sweet friendship. (Aug.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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