Swiv

Swiv is the first-person narrator of Fight Night. She is an eight-year-old child, living in Toronto with her mother, Mooshie, and grandmother, Elvira. When the novel begins, she has recently been expelled from school for fighting. She narrates the novel as a letter to her absent father, who the reader later learns left the family after Mooshie had an affair. Swiv does not know where her father is, and this is a source of anxiety for her that manifests in the way she thinks about her other family members. She is extremely impressionable, and she worries that Mooshie will develop a mental health issue and hurt herself, or that something will happen to Elvira. She takes care of Elvira in many ways, ensuring she takes her medication and putting on her compression socks for her. In Part 2, she accompanies Elvira to Fresno to visit two of her grandmother's...