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Summer of My Amazing Luck

by Miriam Toews · 1996

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Lucy Von Alstyne sends fictitious letters to her friend Alicia, pretending to be the father of Alicia's twins, and the two welfare mothers and their five children set off on a journey to find him, facing along the way the complications of living in poverty and raising fatherless children.

Genre
humorliterary fiction
Setting
1990scanada
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 240 pages

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