{"product_id":"pick-a-color-hardcover","title":"Pick a Color - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSouvankham Thammavongsa\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the 2025 Giller Prize \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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.'\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Told over a single day with razor-sharp precision and wit, \u003ci\u003ePick a Color \u003c\/i\u003econfirms Souvankham Thammavongsa's place as literature's premier chronicler of the immigrant experience, in its myriad, complex, and slyly subversive forms. \u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSouvankham Thammavongsa\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, Granta, \u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e NOON. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.3 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 30, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45085084680368,"sku":"9780316422147","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1121\/0060\/files\/cO0ovGEy0j9780316422147.webp?v=1777996790","url":"https:\/\/sidekicksptown.com\/products\/pick-a-color-hardcover","provider":"Sidekicks Ptown","version":"1.0","type":"link"}