Praise for Summer of My Amazing Luck "A picaresque account of two welfare moms having loopy adventures and getting by in the city . . . The novel's voice [is] amused, warm, curious, alive on the page." –Alexandra Schwartz,
The New Yorker "A comic take on what initially appears a most improbable topic for humour . . . it works." –
The Globe and Mail "Toews, author of
A Complicated Kindness (2004), offers a mellow summer interlude that allows readers to revel in the not-so-simple pleasures of small-town life, and consider what matters most." –Danise Hoover,
Booklist "The novel offers a humorous look at the absurdities of the Canadian welfare system while unwinding the intricacies of a sticky-sweet friendship." –
Publishers Weekly