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  • The Big Issue

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    Mar 21, 2022 2 minutes
    By Chris Deerin

    There are things one can reliably expect from a Miriam Toews novel: a precocious and disturbed child in a lead role, a mysteriously vanished family member, at least one suicide, and the ability to take subject matter of the darkest kind and illuminate it with joyful, razor-sharp humour.

    Fight Night

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