Description A house in Bangkok is the confluence of lives shaped by upheaval, memory, and the lure of home.
He\'s a contributing writer at The Morning News and has received fellowships in fiction writing from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and the Mac Dowell Colony..
About the author Pitchaya Sudbanthad grew up in Thailand, Saudi Arabia, and the American South.
Time collapses as these stories collide and converge, linked by the forces voraciously making and remaking the amphibious, ever-morphing capital itself.
And in New Krungthep, savvy teenagers row tourists past landmarks of the drowned old city they themselves do not remember.
A young woman tries to outpace the long shadow of her political past.
A jazz pianist in the age of rock, haunted by his own ghosts, is summoned to appease the resident spirits.
A post-WWII society woman marries, mothers, and holds court, little suspecting her solitary future.
A missionary doctor pines for his native New England even as he succumbs to the vibrant chaos of nineteenth-century Siam.
Description A house in Bangkok is the confluence of lives shaped by upheaval, memory, and the lure of home