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Fight Night
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Fight Night, published in 2021, is Canadian author Miriam Toews’s ninth book. Like many of her works, including the award-winning 2018 novel Women Talking, Fight Night draws on the author’s personal history as a Mennonite to explore themes of mortality and despair, repression and joy, and the limits and means of language. The novel became a bestseller upon its publication and received positive reviews. It was shortlisted for the 20201 Scotiabank Giller Prize and was a finalist for the 2021 Atwood Gibston Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Other works by Toews include A Complicated Kindness (2004) and All My Puny Sorrows (2014).
This guide refers to the Bloomsbury Publishing paperback edition, published in 2023.
Content Warning: The source text and this guide discuss mental illness, suicide, and religious trauma and mention physical abuse and alcohol abuse. This guide also mentions sexual violence.
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