![]() At 192 pages, the fourteen stories in How to Pronounce Knife are sharp, quick, and anchored in necessity. ![]() ![]() Using repetition to magnify and shrink her characters’ personal complexities and intimate hopes, Thammavongsa both invites readers in and shuts them out of the vulnerable worlds found within each piece. Unrelenting in her mastery of zoomed-in detail, Thammavongsa propels readers into the raw depths of what it means to love, desire, dream, ache, and grieve through stories that challenge and push against the problematic American standard of beauty, the dangers of assimilation, and the damaging effects of racism. ![]() How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa is not only a collection of stories, but a culmination of lives stripped bare for the naked eye. ![]()
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