![]() ![]() “What else she would have to find out for herself.”įamily relationships form the basis for several of the stories in the collection. ![]() “As she watches her father eat his dinner, she thinks of what else he doesn’t know,” Thammavongsa writes. The title story features a heartbreaking scene in which the young girl asks her father for help in pronouncing the word “knife” he insists that the “k” is voiced, which leads to the girl embarrassing herself at school. The man, like most of the characters in Canadian poet Thammavongsa’s excellent fiction debut, is an immigrant to North America from Laos, trying to adapt to life in a country that’s often hostile. “Don’t speak Lao and don’t tell anyone you are Lao,” a father tells his daughter in the title story of Souvankham Thammavongsa’s new collection, “How to Pronounce Knife.” “It’s no good to tell people where you’re from.” ![]()
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