6/25/2023 0 Comments How to pronounce knife book review![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In “Paris,” a woman named Red works at a chicken processing plant, and Red observes her co-workers’ narrow prospects for advancement. ![]() “He talked like he had to tell me everything now because we’d never see each other again,” says the narrator of “A Far Distant Thing” about her father, describing what it was like when she was a child and he worked in a nail polish factory. The action is often centered on workplace or the home, and the arrangements in both places often feel tenuous and desperate to the characters, most of whom belong to the Laotian diaspora. Eek” of windshield wipers, and the “Ewwrrrkk” said to arise from a girl’s parted legs at the first sound of a boy’s “I love you,” like a “door opening on rusty hinges.” All the stories wield intense emotional power, and their devastating denouements cut deep, like something a bit sharper than the nail file on the book’s cover. The stories often read like poetry, with their close attention to language-the ways words are pronounced and what is meant by them, such as character’s “Yes, sir” to his coworkers, which really means “Fuck you!”-and to sounds. How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa (Little, Brown)Ĭanadian poet Thammavongsa, born in Thailand and the daughter of Laotian refugees, makes her fiction debut with this Giller Prize-winning collection, following two decades of acclaimed poetry (most recently Cluster). ![]()
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