![]() ![]() And in this fall from grace we see the importance of family, but we also see how someone has to accept a reduced view of themselves and the exoticisation from others in order to get by. ![]() In ‘Mani Pedi’, a former boxer becomes a nail stylist. When the mum in ‘Randy Travis’ falls in love with country music, we see how one family member adapting to their new home at a different pace to another can leave an insurmountable gap. Throughout the collection, we return to similar small issues that mean something much bigger. That seemingly small struggle is shown to represent the persistent issues that our protagonist and his family are going to face going forward. For such a simple premise, this first story is incredibly affecting. ![]() As we read a story of how a young man from Laos’s attempts to learn to read and pronounce the word knife, and how that affects him in school, before seeing how he later surpasses the language learning of his father, it becomes clear that this will be a book about the less discussed struggles of the immigrant experience. How to Pronounce Knife sets its stall out pretty quickly with the self-titled story that kicks it all off. ![]()
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