FROM THE WRITER OF THE OSCAR-WININNG WOMEN TALKING
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR
LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
-Go Grandma Elvira!- Margaret Atwood
''Wickedly funny and fearlessly honest.'' The New Yorker
''Glorious.'' Sarah Moss
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You are a small thing, and you must learn to fight.
Swiv has taken this advice too literally. Now she-s suspended from school, in the care of her foul-mouthed, hilarious grandmother.
Mom is busy being pregnant, so Grandma gives Swiv a very different education. Swiv learns maths with Amish jigsaws and How to Dig a Winter Grave. Grandma-s methods may be unorthodox, but she has faced the worst of life with a wild, independent spirit and this is what she hopes to pass on.
Time is running short. Grandma-s health is failing and the baby is on the way - can Grandma inspire this fire in Swiv, and ensure it never goes out?
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