Welcome Me to the Kingdom: Stories by Mai Nardone instant download

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NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • An immersive debut set across the temples, slums, & gated estates of late-twentieth century Bangkok, telling the story of three families striving to control their destinies in a merciless, sometimes brutally violent, metropolis.“Mai Nardone is a writer with an atlas straight to the heart. I did not want to put this book down & neither will you.”—C Pam Zhang, bestselling author of How Much of These Hills Is GoldWe came with the drought. From the window of the train, the rich brown of the Chao Phraya River marked the turn from the northeast into the central plains. We came for Bangkok on the delta. The thin tributaries that laced the provinces found full current at the capital. And in the city, we’d heard, the wealth was wide & deep.In 1980, young lovers Pea & Nam arrive in Bangkok in search of a life, and a world, beyond Thailand’s rural outskirts....