Summer Of My Amazing Luck Av Miriam Toews

<p><b>''Toews¿s debut is a tart, affectionate look at welfare mothers...Toews is especially good on the ¿rollicking, happy, impoverished family¿ of the projects [and] scathing about the humiliations of poverty.'' <i>New York Times</i></b><br><br>Lucy and her eight-month-old son live in a Winnipeg housing project filled with single mothers on the dole. Still dealing with her own mother¿s sudden death, and new to the ever-multiplying complications of life on welfare, Lucy strikes up a friendship with her neighbour, Lish. On the whole, they¿re pretty happy . . . But Lucy wants to make sure they stay happy. And she has a plan.<br><br>Told with Toews¿s signature scalding wit and deep compassion, <i>Summer of my Amazing Luck</i> is a brilliantly funny book about the intricacies of friendship, grief, and poverty.<br><br><br><b>''[A] picaresque account of two welfare moms having loopy adventures and getting by in the city... The novel¿s voice [is] amused, warm, curious, alive on the page.'' <i