In spare, intimate prose charged with emotional power and a sly wit, she paints an indelible portrait of watchful children, wounded men, and restless women caught between cultures, languages, and values.
In her stunning Giller Prize-winning debut book of fiction, Souvankham Thammavongsa focuses on characters struggling to make a living, illuminating their hopes, disappointments, love affairs, acts of defiance, and above all their pursuit of a place to belong. A housewife learning English from daytime soap operas. A father who packs furniture to move into homes he'll never afford.
A woman plucking feathers at a chicken processing plant. Told with compassion and wry humour, these stories honour characters struggling to find their bearings far from home, even as they do the necessary "grunt work of the world".Ī young man painting nails at the local salon. Henry Award winner Souvankham Thammavongsa establishes her as an essential new voice in Canadian and world literature. Named one of Time Magazine 's Must-Read Books of 2020, and featuring stories that have appeared in Harper's, Granta, The Atlantic, and The Paris Review, this revelatory book of fiction from O. Winner of the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prizeįinalist for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pen America Open Book Award, and the Danuta Gleed Award
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