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Pick a Color: A Novel

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Notes From Your Bookseller
Notes From Your Bookseller

Funny, heartbreaking, lonely — such is a single day in this nail shop owner’s life. Here Ning reflects on her dual identity and the unspoken desires that simmer beneath the surface of her day to day existence.

WINNER OF THE GILLER PRIZE

A USA Today Bestseller

From O. Henry Award winner and two-time Giller Prize 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.


“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.'"

Ning is a ret...