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PICK A COLOR by Souvankham Thammavongsa -- Advance Reader's Copy Paperback
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Item specifics
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- Like New
- Seller Notes
- “Advance Reader's Copy Paperback”
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- ISBN
- 9781549119545
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
1549119540
ISBN-13
9781549119545
eBay Product ID (ePID)
25074273013
Product Key Features
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Family Life, Asian American
Publication Year
2025
Book Title
Pick a Color : a Novel
Language
English
Genre
Fiction
Format
Audio Recording Downloadable
Additional Product Features
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Trade
Reviews
"This debut novel is a must for fans (like me) of Thammavongsa's intimate, deliciously tricky short stories. With dry humor and a keen eye for class, she's given us a hauntingly good book about the dignity and despair of work: the secret life of nail salons...When Thammavongsa writes, I read!"-- Ed Park, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Same Bed Different Dreams, " Pick a Color is one of the greatest novels I have ever read. In alchemical and captivating prose, this book orbits the steady flows of power and projection that exist between Ning, her employees and her clients. Love, death, joy, abandonment, deception and lust are all at stake in Susan's Nail Salon. The world of Pick a Color is shockingly intimate. Reading this book left me with an intense desire to touch a stranger's hands." -- Rita Bullwinkle, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Headshot, " Pick a Color is a wickedly funny and moving novel by a superbly stylish writer. This is a book about intimacy and alienation, how othering limits our gaze, about the masks we wear, the instincts we hone, and the ways in which we are nonetheless created anew in each encounter. In a world so often drained of ethics and meaning, Souvankham narrows in on the contemporary rituals of our modern-day confessionals--and I couldn't help but feel her narrator is a high priestess for this moment."-- Avni Doshi, Booker shortlisted author of Burnt Sugar, "Only as masterful an ironist as Souvankham Thammavongsa could have pulled this off: a work of urgent and impassioned solidarity that is also a defiant, even pugnacious, assertion of narrative autonomy and technical control. Pick a Color is a knockout: every punch lands."-- Eleanor Catton, author of Birnam Wood, " Pick a Color is one of the greatest novels I have ever read. In alchemical and captivating prose, this book orbits the steady flows of power and projection that exist between Ning, her employees and her clients. Love, death, joy, abandonment, deception and lust are all at stake in Susan's Nail Salon. The world of Pick a Color is shockingly intimate. Reading this book left me with an intense desire to touch a stranger's hands." -- Rita Bullwinkle, Pulitzer Prize Finalist of Headshot
Edition Description
Unabridged edition
Synopsis
From Giller Prize and O. Henry Award winner Souvankham Thammavongsa comes a revelatory novel about loneliness, love, labor, and class, an intimate and sharply written book following a nail salon owner as she toils away for the privileged clients who don't even know her true name. "I live in a world of Susans. I got name tags for everyone who works at this nail salon, and on every one is printed the name 'Susan.'" Ning is a retired boxer, but to the customers who visit her nail salon, she is just another worker named Susan. On this summer's day, much like any other, the Susans buff and clip and polish and tweeze. They listen and smile and nod. But beneath this superficial veneer, Ning is a woman of rigorous intellect and profound complexity. A woman enthralled by the intricacy and rhythms of her work, but also haunted by memories of paths not taken and opportunities lost. A woman navigating the complex power dynamics among her fellow Susans, whose greatest fears and desires lie just behind the gossip they exchange. As the day's work grinds on, the friction between Ning's two identities--as anonymous manicurist and brilliant observer of her own circumstances--will gather electric and crackling force, and at last demand a reckoning with the way the world of privilege looks at a woman like Ning. Told over a single day with razor-sharp precision and wit, Pick a Color confirms Souvankham Thammavongsa's place as literature's premier chronicler of the immigrant experience, in its myriad, complex, and slyly subversive forms.
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