Bangkok is changing too fast, shedding layers of its history like the skins of a snake. intersect and build on one another, like banana leaves woven to make a floating offering for the water spirits. “ hidden, overlooked spaces, where ghosts and spirits and discarded dreams orbit, even as people try to outpace the past. Named a best book of 2019 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Paste, and Kirkus.
Bangkok Wakes to Rain is an elegy for what time erases and a love song to all that persists, yearning, into the unknowable future. Time collapses as these lives collide and converge, linked by the forces voraciously making and remaking the amphibious, ever-morphing capital itself. And in a New Krungthep yet to come, savvy teenagers row tourists past landmarks of the drowned old city they themselves do not remember. In the present, 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 house's resident spirits. A post-World War II society woman marries, mothers, and holds court, little suspecting her solitary fate. "Important, ambitious, and accomplished." -Mohsin Hamid, New York Times bestselling author of Exit WestĪ missionary doctor pines for his native New England even as he succumbs to the vibrant chaos of nineteenth-century Siam.
"Recreates the experience of living in Thailand's aqueous climate so viscerally that you can feel the water rising around your ankles." -Ron Charles, Washington Post
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