{"product_id":"welcome-me-to-the-kingdom-9780593498187","title":"Welcome Me to the Kingdom","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eEDITORS’ CHOICE • An immersive debut set across the temples, slums, and 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Mai Nardone is a writer with an atlas straight to the heart. I did not want to put this book down and neither will you.”—C Pam Zhang, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHow Much of These Hills Is Gold\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe 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 and deep.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1980, young lovers Pea and Nam arrive in Bangkok in search of a life, and a world, beyond Thailand’s rural outskirts.","brand":"Random House USA Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49525856207191,"sku":"9780593498187","price":21.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/welcome-me-to-the-kingdom-9780593498187","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}