Summer of My Amazing Luck

'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.' The New Yorker