Anne Bogle

I think it could lead to really good conversations if you enjoy that.

Okay.

That is Wedding Toast I'll Never Give by Ada Calhoun.

Now, I want to say that the, well, here, let's find out if you've read it yet.

Have you read any Miriam Tay's?

I'm thinking of Fight Night specifically.

Not sad to hear it.

She's a Canadian writer, and she's written fiction and nonfiction.

This is a short novel about three generations of women in one family.

And this just came out a few years ago, and the narrator is mostly a nine-year-old girl.

Her name is Swiv.

And when she is expelled from school for fighting, her family is upset.

She starts spending her days with her frail but spunky grandmother who has an unconventional approach to homeschooling her nine-year-old granddaughter.

So her grandmother says, Okay, Swift.

You are to write letters about what's happening in your life and in our family to your father, who has been away since their mother got pregnant.

And she's supposed to update him on her mother's third trimester pregnancy.

Swiv is like, well, okay, if I have to write these letters, then I want you to write some of her own.

So her grandmother is also assigned writing about the family.

But the women in this family are...

I mean, the grandmother especially feels larger than life.