Summer of My Amazing Luck

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It wasn't a goal of mine, certainly. As a child, I never once dreamed, 'I will be a poor mother.' I had fully intended to be a forest ranger. Now I realise there just isn't enough human contact in that field for me. But then, look where human contact got me. Lucy and her eight-month-old son Dill live in a public assistance housing building filled with single mothers on the dole. Lucy doesn't know who Dill's father is - to tell you the truth, Lucy's done her best to forget the men she was with around the time her son was conceived. Lucy's neighbour Lish, on the other hand, remembers her twins' father very well. He was a street performer who went by Gotcha, said he loved her and suggested that she join him on the road - before he made himself, along with Lish's cotton purse, disappear for good. On the whole, Lish and her kids seem happy. But Lucy wants to keep them happy - and she has a plan: write letters. And sign them, 'Love, Gotcha'.

Miriam Toews is the author of seven novels: Summer of My Amazing Luck, A Boy of Good Breeding, A Complicated Kindness,The Flying Troutmans, Irma Voth, All My Puny Sorrows, and Women Talking, and one work of non-fiction, Swing Low: A Life. She is a winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and the Writers Trust Marian Engel/ Timothy Findley Award. She lives in Toronto.