An Evening with Souvankham Thammavongsa (Pick a Colour)

Schedule

Tue Oct 21 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

McNally Robinson Booksellers, 1120 Grant Avenue | Winnipeg, MB

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Join us for an evening with Giller Prize and O. Henry Award winner Souvankham Thammavongsa as she brings her debut novel, Pick a Colour (Knopf Canada) to Winnipeg. Featuring a reading and a conversation hosted by Lindsay Wong. Co-presented by Plume Winnipeg.
https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9781039058453/s-thammavongsa/pick-a-colour
This event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream: https://youtube.com/live/CsyvpCg8ZK4
Pick a Colour is a revelatory novel about loneliness, love, labour, 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.
Told over a single day, with razor-sharp precision and wit, the novel confirms Thammavongsa's place as literature's premier chronicler of the immigrant experience, in its myriad, complex, and slyly subversive forms.
Souvankham Thammavongsa is the author of four poetry books and the short story collection, How to Pronounce Knife, winner of the 2020 Giller Prize and 2021 Trillium Book Award. Her stories have won an O. Henry Prize and appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and Granta.
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McNally Robinson Booksellers, 1120 Grant Avenue, McNally Robinson for Kids, 1120 Grant Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3M, Canada

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