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CAROL OFF, CHRIS HOWDEN (HOSTS):
CH: Stories about the immigrant experience are often tinged with tragedy. Souvankham Thammavongsa knows this and there's truth to it, she says. But the short stories in her Giller nominated collection, How to Pronounce Knife, are tinged with a lot of other emotions too. After all, immigrants are also, as Ms. Thammavongsa puts it, fun and ferocious and hilarious. And so is her book. It's a lot of territory to cover, but according to the Scotiabank Giller Prize jury, the result is a collection of stories that serve as vessels of hope, of hurt, of rejection, of loss, and of finding one's footing in a new and strange land. In one of the stories, the narrator reflects on her immigrant mother's...