In “A Far Distant Thing,” two 12-year-old girls have a short but meaningful friendship before they lose touch and their lives take different paths. It was like what happened in the ring, but in reverse.”) and pines after a wealthy white client. In “Mani Pedi,” a former boxer begins working at his sister’s nail salon (“It amazed him to see clients transformed.
In one of the best stories, “Slingshot,” a 70-year-old woman experiences a sexual reawakening with her 32-year-old neighbor, Richard: “It was the start of summer and I wanted something to happen to me.” In “Randy Travis,” a seven-year-old daughter is made to write hundreds of letters to country singer Randy Travis after her mother-who can’t write in English-becomes obsessed with him, and watches her father wear cowboy boots and flannel in an attempt to draw his wife’s attention. Poet Thammavongsa ( Cluster) makes her fiction debut with this sharp and elegant collection that focuses on the hopes, desires, and struggles of Lao immigrants and refugees in an unnamed English-speakingĬity.
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