Pick a Color by Thammavongsa, Souvankham
Pick a Color by Thammavongsa, Souvankham

Pick a Color

From Giller Prize and O. Henry Award winner Souvankham Thammavongsa comes a revelatory novel about loneliness, love,...
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Pick a Color by Thammavongsa, Souvankham

Pick a Color

$43.13
Pick a Color by Thammavongsa, Souvankham

Pick a Color

$43.13
Author: Souvankham Thammavongsa
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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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.

Author: Souvankham Thammavongsa
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 09/30/2025
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780316422147


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 07/01/2025 pg. 48
Publishers Weekly 07/28/2025
Shelf Awareness 08/01/2025
Booklist 08/01/2025
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2025

About the Author
Souvankham Thammavongsa was born in the Lao refugee camp in Nong Khai, Thailand, and was raised and educated in Toronto, where she now lives. How to Pronounce Knife, winner of the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize and 2021 Trillium Book Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her stories have won an O. Henry Award and appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, Granta, and NOON.
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