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Fight like a girl / Sheena Kamal.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : Penguin Teen, 2020Description: 272 pages ; 18 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780735265554 (hardcover)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • F KAM
Summary: Love and violence. In some families they're bound up together, dysfunctional and poisonous, passed from generation to generation like eye color or a quirk of smile. Trisha's trying to break the chain, channeling her violent impulses into Muay Thai kickboxing, an unlikely sport for a slightly built girl of Trinidadian descent. Her father comes and goes as he pleases, his presence adding a layer of tension to Toronto's east-end townhouse Trisha and her mom call home, every punch he lands on her mother carving itself indelibly into Trisha's mind. Until the night he wanders out drunk in front of the car Trisha is driving, practicing on her learner's permit, her mother in the passenger seat. Her father is killed, and her mother seems strangely at peace. Lighter, somehow. Trisha doesn't know exactly what happened that night, but she's afraid it's going to happen again. Her mom has a new man in her life and the patterns, they are repeating.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK Meaford Public Library Young Adult Collection Fiction YA FIC Kamal (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Forest of Reading Nominee 2022 21662
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YA FIC Kagaw Shadow of the fox / YA FIC Kagaw Soul of the sword / YA FIC Kagaw Night of the dragon / YA FIC Kamal Fight like a girl / YA FIC Kate Unforgiven / YA FIC Kate Fallen / YA FIC Katou As long as the lemon trees grow /

Love and violence. In some families they're bound up together, dysfunctional and poisonous, passed from generation to generation like eye color or a quirk of smile. Trisha's trying to break the chain, channeling her violent impulses into Muay Thai kickboxing, an unlikely sport for a slightly built girl of Trinidadian descent. Her father comes and goes as he pleases, his presence adding a layer of tension to Toronto's east-end townhouse Trisha and her mom call home, every punch he lands on her mother carving itself indelibly into Trisha's mind. Until the night he wanders out drunk in front of the car Trisha is driving, practicing on her learner's permit, her mother in the passenger seat. Her father is killed, and her mother seems strangely at peace. Lighter, somehow. Trisha doesn't know exactly what happened that night, but she's afraid it's going to happen again. Her mom has a new man in her life and the patterns, they are repeating.

Ages 14+ Penguin Teen

Grades 10-12 Penguin Teen

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