~ Undersize Hardcover (13.5 x 19.5cm)
~ Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize - 2025
~ New Release - 2025
Retired boxer Ning is known to the clients of her nail salon as Susan, just another invisible worker who smiles and nods, buffs and clips, polishes and tweezes, but beneath it all intelligent and complex Ning is haunted by memories of paths not taken and opportunities lost . . .
Told with razor-sharp precision and set over the course of a single day, Pick A Colour is a revelatory novel about loneliness, love, labour, and class that provides an exquisite chronicle of the immigrant experience, in all its myriad, complex, and slyly subversive forms.
"With dark humour and brief touches of tenderness, Thammavongsa’s tableau of working-class life casts stock elements (a damaged narrator, a workforce composed entirely of nonwhite women) in an alienating glow.” -- The New Yorker