![]() Notable examples that come to mind include Last Things by Jenny Offill, Bewilderment by Richard Powers and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon. ![]() We understand the nuances of the adult world, anticipate pitfalls and problems, taking on, often unconsciously, a protector role that gets us remarkably close to the character’s experiences and the corresponding emotional responses.įight Night is full of oppositions, a book that revels in dichotomies: life and death, joy and sorrow, tragedy and comedy ![]() At best, though, the voice of the child creates inherent dramatic irony, innocence exploited, whereby the reader knows more than the person telling the story. The title is a metaphor for the struggle of living, but also indicative of the plucky, joyous story to follow, where three generations of women from one tragedy-stricken family band together to protect and assist each other through the journey of life, the road that goes only in one direction.Ĭhild narrators are notoriously tricky, either limiting the writer’s facility for language and style, or if not, resulting in a character that appears too knowing and eloquent to be credible. ![]() ![]() “It doesn’t matter what words you use in life, it’s not gonna prevent you from suffering.” This is one of many pills of wisdom cheerfully dispensed by grandmother Elvira to her nine-year-old granddaughter Swiv, the precocious and endearing child narrator of Miriam Toews’s new novel Fight Night. ![]()
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