“An important, ambitious, and accomplished novel.”
— Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit West

BANGKOK WAKES TO RAIN
The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize Finalist
A 2019 New York Times Notable Book
A Washington Post 2019 Notable Work of Fiction
Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2019 selection
Lurching through decades, from Bangkok’s rich past to its precarious future, the human tales in this novel seep into one another, held together by delicate threads. Read more…
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US: Penguin Random House — Riverhead Books
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UK: Hodder & Stoughton — Sceptre
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Authors’ praise for Bangkok Wakes to Rain
Events
July 15, 2019
Pittsburgh, PA
City of Asylum
w/ Ingrid Rojas Contreras
7pm
September 7, 2019
Brooklyn NY
Slice Literary Conference
4:30pm
September 19, 2019
New York, NY
Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend: Guernica/NRDC’s “Now or Never: Storytellers Tackling Climate Change”
6pm
September 22, 2019
Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Book Festival: Human Nature vs. Nature/The Climate Conflict
1pm
October 17-20, 2019
Brattleboro, VT
Brattleboro Literary Festival
Time: Various
October 23-27, 2019
Bali, Indonesia
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival
Time: Various
November 10, 2019
Bangkok, Thailand
Thammasat University, Literature Dept.
w/ Veeraporn Nitiprapha
Time: 10am
November 16-17, 2019
Bangkok, Thailand
Neilson Hays Literary Festival
Time: Various
“This teeming debut novel…recreates the experience of living in Thailand’s aqueous climate so viscerally that you can feel the water rising around your ankles.”
—The Washington Post
“Fluid in its structure and aqueous in its themes, the novel vividly evokes the teeming, sweltering city…”
—The New Yorker
“Ambitious and sweeping, yet at once intimately crafted and shot through with fine detail, Bangkok Wakes to Rain is a sumptuous accomplishment.”
—Esquire