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How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa but her status as the*Used like new Published by McLelland & Stewart 2020 In the title story of Souvankham Thammavongsa's debut collection, a young girl brings a book home from school and asks her father to help her pronounce a tricky word, a simple exchange with unforgettable consequences. Thammavongsa is a master at homing in on moments like this moments of exposure, dislocation, and messy feeling that push us right up against the limits of language. The stories that