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    All in the family

    Aug 14, 2022 2 minutes
    by HELENA WIŚNIEWSKA BROW

    FIGHT NIGHT, by Miriam Toews (Faber, $32.99)

    Suffering, when paired with a shadow of hope, can be “horrifyingly beautiful”, says Canadian writer Miriam Toews.

    Both are combined to brilliant effect in the award-winning author’s seventh novel, the latest to revisit the impasse of her dark family history. If the past can’t be forgotten, Toews asks, how can it’s trio of plucky heroines, the solution lies in the joy of the struggle.

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