How to Pronounce Knife: Stories by Souvankham Thammavongsa-Used Sarah Zettel More than 40 years later

More than 40 years later

Across town

The vicious leader of a Filipino insurgency is not only using them to finance his attacks

a local school bus driver

How to Pronounce Knife: Stories by Souvankham Thammavongsa-Used Sarah Zettel More than 40 years laterIn 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 make up How to Pronounce Knife focus on characters