Short Fiction

How to Pronounce Knife: Stories

by Souvankham Thammavongsa

This award-winning collection illuminates the lives of Lao immigrants navigating displacement and the quiet violence of cultural erasure. From a nail salon worker to a child learning English, Thammavongsa's characters perform the invisible labor that sustains others while asserting their own dignity. Spare, piercing stories that honor resilience without sentimentality.

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