How to Pronounce Knife: Stories -

Souvankham Thammavongsa

Little, Brown and Company

2020

304 páginas

10h 8m

ISBN-13: 9780316422130

For readers of Jenny Zhang, Junot Diaz, and Helen Oyeyemi, a collection of uncannily and intimately observed stories that bring to life the surreal, funny, often wrenching realities of making a life when you've left your history behind.

In her breathtaking debut, prize-winning poet Souvankham Thammavongsa gives us a wrenching, eye-opening story collection about immigrants and refugees, exploring tradition, dislocation, and the monumental dramas unfolding in the invisible economies we interact with every day. With an eye for the ways in which language can foster confusion and hope in equal measure, Thammavongsa captures moving glimpses of the day-to-day lives of the forgotten classes of a city--the nail techs, worm pickers, office workers, cooks, gamblers, drunks, and deadbeats. These characters grapple with love, work, ambition, money, racism, sexism, and displacement even as they crack jokes, tumble in and out of lovers' beds, fight with their parents, and raise their children.

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4 (Muito bom)

Contos que lidam principalmente com a ideia de pertencimento, de busca identitária, de autodescoberta. Muito bom.