How to Pronounce Knife
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Acknowledgements
Thank you to Sarah Bowlin at Aevitas Creative Management, for your brilliance, skill, and cheer—this doesn’t happen, without you. Sheila Heti. Helen Oyeyemi. Diane Williams. Madeleine Thien. Hasan Altaf. Jean Garnett at Little, Brown. Anita Chong at McClelland & Stewart, for your joy and lift and logic. Angelique Tran Van Sang at Bloomsbury. Lauren Harms, for the front cover design of this book; I love its intensity and force. Craig Young, Alyssa Persons, Ira Boudah. Jared Bland, Erin Kelly, Ruta Liormonas. Beth Follett. Kulap Vilaysack. Vinh Nguyen. Aaron Peck. Doretta Lau. Anna Ling Kaye. Bryan Thao Worra. Andy and Naomi DuBois. Andrew DuBois. Randy Travis. John Thammavongsa. Sisouvanh Thammavongsa. Phouk Thammavongsa. The Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council’s Writers’ Works in Progress and Writers’ Reserve programs, and the University of Ottawa’s writer-in-residence program.
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The following stories were previously published in a different form: ‘How to Pronounce Knife’ in Granta; ‘Slingshot’ in Harper’s, The O. Henry Prize Stories 2019, and Lit Hub; ‘The Universe Would Be So Cruel’ in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018 and NOON; ‘Paris’ in Ricepaper Magazine and The Journey Prize Stories 28; ‘Mani Pedi’ in The Puritan and The Journey Prize Stories 28; ‘The School Bus Driver’ in NOON; ‘Ewwrrrkk’ as ‘Ewwrrrrk!’ in Joyland; ‘The Gas Station’ in The Paris Review; ‘You Are So Embarrassing’ in The New Quarterly; ‘Chick-A-Chee!’ in The Literary Review and Postcolonial Text; ‘Picking Worms’ as ‘Worms’ in Ploughshares.
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