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|October 24, 2025
A day in the lives of the workers in a nail salon, where everyone's name tag says Susan
The first novel from LaotianCanadian poet and shortstory writer Souvankham Thammavongsa takes place over one summer's day in a nail bar; implicitly in Canada, but it could be in any city. The narrative potential of such businesses, where customers pay for a particular service and expect to receive other kinds of care, has been explored in films and novels set in taxis and hairdressers. Such settings open rich questions: who has the power, the one who pays or the one who shapes the customer's body, often with alarmingly sharp implements? How human can such exchanges of cash for care or "beauty" be? What do we buy and what do we sell in these transactions?
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