![]() In “Paris”, the female employees at a meat-processing plant spend their earnings on risky plastic surgery in order to catch the eye of the manager and get promoted from the factory floor to secretary. And they do so – sentence by deceptively simple sentence – with all the stealth of tigers stalking in tall grass.Ī predator-prey dynamic is partly the subject of the collection, which subtly highlights people’s unequal footing in the arenas of race, class, gender, age and nationality. ![]() They are designed to stop you in your tracks. Thammavongsa is expert at creating that uncertain sense of an ending, producing neat finishes with loose ends. Many of the fourteen stories in How to Pronounce Knife, the debut collection from Souvankham Thammavongsa, are a case in point. ![]()
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