How to Pronounce Knife: Stories by Souvankham Thammavongsa-Used Sarah Zettel She’s fourteen

She’s fourteen

a local school bus driver

More than 40 years later

Vividly rendered and inspired by true events

in which a protest by black students ignites racial conflict

How to Pronounce Knife: Stories by Souvankham Thammavongsa-Used Sarah Zettel She’s fourteenIn 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