![]() When a 70-year-old woman begins a relationship with her much younger neighbour, her assumptions about the limits of love unravel. After a boxer loses his dream of becoming a championship fighter, he finds an unexpected chance at redemption while working at his sister's nail salon. Told with compassion, wry humour, and an unflinching eye for the often absurd realities of having to start your life over again, these stories honour characters struggling to find their bearings far from home, even as they do the necessary "grunt work of the world." A daughter becomes an unwilling accomplice in her mother's growing infatuation with country singer Randy Travis. In spare, intimate prose charged with emotional power and a sly wit, she paints an indelible portrait of watchful children, wounded men, and restless women caught between cultures, languages, and values. ![]() In her startling debut book of fiction, Souvankham Thammavongsa vividly captures the day-to-day lives of immigrants and refugees, illuminating their hopes, disappointments, love affairs, acts of defiance - and, above all, their pursuit of a place to belong. A housewife learning English from daytime soap operas. A mother who works nights alongside her daughter, harvesting worms. ![]() A father who packs furniture to move into homes he'll never afford. A woman plucking feathers at a chicken processing plant. ![]() ![]() A young man painting nails at the local salon. ![]()
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