“An important, ambitious, and accomplished novel.”
— Mohsin Hamid on Bangkok Wakes to Rain
New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Washington Post Notable Book of the Year
Kirkus Reviews Best Books
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…
Available wherever book are sold
US: Penguin Random House — Riverhead Books
Apple Book / Barnes & Noble / Books-A-Million / Bookshop / Indiebound / Powell’s / PRH
English-language audiobook (via a local bookstore): Libro.fm
UK: Hachette — Sceptre
Hodder / Waterstones / WH Smiths
Translations:
France: Editions Rivages (translator: Bernard Turle)
Italy: Fazi Editore (translator: Silvia Castoldi)
Events
May 9, 2022
Brooklyn, NY
BBC World Book Café
w/ Elaine Hsieh Chou, Crystal Hannah Kim, Jen Lue, Matt Ortile, and presenter Michelle Fleury
Time: 700pm
June 14, 2022
Video appearance
Orion Magazine 40th Anniversary Celebration
Time: 6pm
June 13-19, 2022
Ripton, VT
Faculty member (fiction)
Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference at Middleburry College
June 22, 2022
Virtual event
Point Reyes Books
w/ Amy Brady, Tajja Issen, and Lidia Yuknavitch for The World As We Knew It (anthology)
7pm
July 22, 2022
Online lecture
One Story Summer Conference
“On the Crafting of Place”
2:45pm
August 13, 2022
Long Island City, NY
Artbook MOMA PS1
“Six Endings” reading
3pm
September 27, 2022
Brooklyn Book Festival
Center for Fiction
“Environmental Storytelling” with Kerri Arsenault, Bathsheba Demuth, Leigh Newman, Morgan Talty
6pm
October 25, 2022
New York, NY
Words Without Borders Gala
Literary Host with other writers and translators
6pm
“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.”
—Ron Charles, 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.”
—Angela Ledgerwood, Adrienne Westenfeld, Esquire
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