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• Title:[Short stories. Selections]
  How to pronounce knife : stories / Souvankham Thammavongsa.
  
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• Author/Creator:Thammavongsa, Souvankham, 1978- author.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020.
  ©2020
  

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  • Location: c.1  Temporarily shelved at KOERNER LIBRARY reserve collection (Floor 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: PS8589.H3457 H69 2020
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Immigrants--Fiction.
  Refugees--Fiction.
  
• Genre/Form:Short stories.
  
• Edition:First edition.
  
• Description:181 pages ; 22 cm
  
• Summary:"In her stunning debut, Souvankham Thammavongsa captures the day-to-day lives of immigrants and refugees in a nameless city, illuminating hopes, disappointments, love affairs, and above all, the pursuit of a place to belong. An ex-boxer turned nail salon worker falls for a pair of immaculate hands; a mother and daughter harvest earthworms in the middle of the night; a country music-obsessed housewife abandons her family for fantasy; and a young girl's love for her father transcends language. Uncannily and intimately observed, written with prose of exceptional precision, the stories in How to Pronounce Knife speak of modern location and dislocation, revealing lives lived in the embrace of isolation and severed history - but not without joy, humour, resilience, and constant wonder at the workings of the world."--Provided by publisher.
  
• ISBN:9780316422130 hardcover
  0316422134 hardcover
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: How to Pronounce Knife
  Paris
  Slingshot
  Randy Travis
  Mani Pedi
  Chick-A-Chee!
  Universe Would Be So Cruel
  Edge of the World
  School Bus Driver
  You Are So Embarrassing
  Ewwrrrkk
  Gas Station
  Far Distant Thing
  Picking Worms.