‘Recreates the experience of living in Thailand’s aqueous weather so viscerally that you can feel water rising around your ankles.’–Ron Charles, Washington Post

‘Important, ambitious, and accomplished.’ –Mohsin Hamid, New York Times bestselling writer of Exit West

A missionary doctor pines for his native New England even as he succumbs to the vibrant chaos of nineteenth-century Siam. A post-World War II society woman marries, mothers, and holds courtroom, small suspecting her solitary destiny..Read More on the subject of Bangkok Wakes to Rainfall: A Novel A jazz pianist in the age of rock, haunted simply by his own ghosts, is summoned to appease the house’s resident spirits. In today’s, a young girl attempts to outpace the longer shadow of her political past. And in a fresh Krungthep yet to come, savvy teenagers row tourists previous landmarks of the drowned aged city they themselves usually do not keep in mind. Period collapses as these lives collide and converge, linked by the pushes voraciously making and remaking the amphibious, ever-morphing capital itself. Bangkok Wakes to Rain is an elegy for what period erases and a like song to all that persists, yearning, in to the unknowable future.