![]() ![]() 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 startling debut book of fiction, Souvankham Thammavongsa vividly captures the day-to-day lives of immigrants and refugees, 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 mother who works nights alongside her daughter, harvesting worms. A father who packs furniture to move into homes he'll never afford. A woman plucking feathers at a chicken processing plant. ![]() A young man painting nails at the local salon. ![]()
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