''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.'' New York Times
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.
Told with Toews-s signature scalding wit and deep compassion, Summer of my Amazing Luck is a brilliantly funny book about the intricacies of friendship, grief, and poverty.
''[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.''
