Miriam Toews - Summer of My Amazing Luck

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A Novel by the Governor General’s Literary Award — winning author of
A Complicated Kindness. Lucy Van Alstyne always thought she’d grow up to become a forest ranger. Instead, at the age of eighteen, she’s found herself with quite a different job title: Single Mother on the Dole. As for the father of her nine-month-old son, Dillinger, well…it could be any of number of guys.
At the Have-a-Life housing project — aptly nicknamed Half-a-Life by those who call it home — Lucy meets Lish, a zany and exuberant woman whose idea of fashion is a black beret with a big silver spider brooch stuck on it. Lish is the mother of four daughters, two by a man on welfare himself and twins from a one-week stand with a fire-eating busker who stole her heart — and her wallet.
Living on the dole isn’t a walk in the park for Lucy and Lish. Dinner almost always consists of noodles. Transportation means pushing a crappy stroller through the rain. Then there are the condescending welfare agents with their dreaded surprise inspections. And just across the street is Serenity Place, another housing project with which Half-a-Life is engaged in a full-on feud. When the women aren’t busy snitching on each other, they’re spreading rumours — or plotting elaborate acts of revenge.
In the middle of a mosquito-infested rainy season, Lish and Lucy decide to escape the craziness of Half-A-Life by taking to the road. In a van held together with coat-hangers and electrical tape and crammed to the hilt with kids and toys, they set off to Colorado in search Lish’s lost love and the father of her twins. Whether they’ll find him is questionable, but the down-and-out adventure helps Lucy realize that this just may be the summer of her amazing luck.
Miriam Toews’s debut novel,
opens our eyes to a social class rarely captured in fiction. At once hilarious and heartbreaking, it is inhabited by an unforgettable and poignant group of characters. Shortlisted for both the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award and for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, it also earned Miriam the John Hirsch Award for the Most Promising Manitoba Writer.

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“And if I never find out?”

“Then you never find out.”

That afternoon my dad said goodbye to all of us at Half-a-Life. He had gone up to Mercy’s apartment and had given Mercy a book about rocks, to give to Mayhem when she was older. Later Mercy showed us what my dad had written inside: “Dear Mayhem, We probably won’t ever really know each other. But you will always be a special child to me. I’m sure your mother will be able to explain everything. Mothers are good at that sort of thing. Yours truly, Geoffrey Van Alstyne.” Then it said, “P.S. Good! Luck!”

Downstairs Sing Dylan shook his hand and Teresa gave him a big wet kiss and a pack of cheap American smokes. “In case you wanna start,” she said. He said, “Thank you, Teresa. Thank you kindly.” He and Dill and I walked to his car. Joe and Pillar were leaning against it. Joe had his arm around Pillar’s waist and they were talking to each other. For the moment, they were happy again. As we approached my dad’s car they smiled and wandered over to a different car to lean against while they talked.

“Dad. How come you and Mom never had any more kids?”

“Well. I guess … it just didn’t happen.” Which I took to mean that sometimes it just did. He took my hand, It was dry and very big. I looked at Dill’s own big hands, and finally saw the similarities. For a second my dad and I were racing to The Waffle Shop. Nobody else existed.

“Lucy?”

“Yeah?”

“Life is not a joke.”

“No.”

I walked back to the front doors of Half-a-Life. I looked up and saw Lish on her balcony. She had on a t-shirt that read “I’m With Her,” and it had a hand on it with a pointing finger. She stood in a square of sunlight and brushed her black hair. Halfa-Life. Half-a-Laugh. Winnipeg, Manitoba, city with the most hours of sunshine, the centre of the universe. I was home. It’s true that life is not a joke. But I knew my life was funny. And Dillinger Geoffrey Van Alstyne was a lucky boy.

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