![]() ![]() The narrative dissects how these seemingly little things continue to bother, chipping away at the character’s borrowed identity. When she goes to school and pronounces it wrong in front of the class, a blue-eyed, yellow-haired girl in the class corrects her that the k is silent and rolls her eyes “as if there was nothing easier in the world to know.”Ī recurring pattern in these stories is the fixation of the protagonists on distinguished features or characteristics that separate immigrants from others. It sounded like “kahneyff” to him so that is what he teaches her. In the eponymous story, a little girl asks her father, who is the only one at home who knows how to read English, on how to pronounce the word knife. These stories zero in on the trivial details of daily living that demarcate immigrants from the rest of the population. Most of the stories in this collection center on the lives of Lao immigrants, taking a leaf out of the life of a writer who was born in a Lao refugee camp in Thailand before emigrating with her parents to Canada. ![]() In this stunning debut, award-winning Canadian writer Souvankham Thammavongsa lays bare the plights of people living in the margins in 14 singularly impressive stories. ![]()
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