Laos

How to Pronounce Knife
by Souvankham Thammavongsa

“How is she going to fit in when she goes to school, if you speak Lao to her at home? We laughed, how worried sick she seemed to be about fitting in, as if that was a thing to want."

Award-winning poet and author Souvankham Thammavongsa was born in a Laotian refugee camp in Thailand. This joyful, illuminating book gives a voice to the dispossessed.

Bloomsbury, 2021
ISBN 9781526610454