'Go Grandma Elvira!' Margaret Atwood

'Wickedly funny and fearlessly honest.' The New Yorker

'Glorious.' Sarah Moss

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You are a small thing, and you must learn to fight.

Swiv has taken this advice too literally. Now she's suspended from school, in the care of her foul-mouthed, hilarious grandmother.

Mom is busy being pregnant, so Grandma gives Swiv a very different education. Swiv learns maths with Amish jigsaws and How to Dig a Winter Grave. Grandma's methods may be unorthodox, but...